Lack of backscatter factor measurements in HDR applications with MOSkins

Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 545-552

  Hayton, Anna ^a,c   Haworth, Annette ^a,b   Waterhouse, David ^b   Todd, Stephen ^b   Pillainayagam, Joseph ^b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN RADIATION PROTECTION AND NUCLEAR SAFETY AGENCY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Backscatter; Brachytherapy; HDR; IOBT; MOSFET

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTER; BRACHYTHERAPY; HDR; IOBT; MOS-FET;

APPLICATORS; BACKSCATTERING; DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; IRIDIUM; MOSFET DEVICES; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

IRIDIUM;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BRACHYTHERAPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IRIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; LINEAR MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84856212413     PISSN: 01589938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13246-011-0101-5     Document Type: Article

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