Measurement of the absorbed dose distribution near an 192Ir intravascular brachytherapy seed using a high-spatial-resolution gel dosimetry system

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3407-3418

  Massillon Jl, G ^a   Minniti, R ^b   Mitch, M G ^b   Soares, C G ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBED DOSE; ABSORBED DOSE DISTRIBUTION; ABSORBED DOSE RATE; BETA PARTICLES; BLOOD VESSEL WALLS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS; CROSS SECTIONAL AREA; DOSE RATE CONSTANTS; GAFCHROMIC FILMS; GEL DOSIMETRY; GEL PHANTOM; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; INTRAVASCULAR BRACHYTHERAPY; MAXIMUM VALUES; MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY; MONTE CARLO; POINT SOURCES; RADIAL DISTANCE; RADIAL DOSE FUNCTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SUBMILLIMETERS;

BLOOD VESSELS; DOSIMETRY; GAMMA RAYS; IRIDIUM; RATE CONSTANTS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ELECTRON EMISSION;

IRIDIUM;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY;

BRACHYTHERAPY; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; IRIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE;

EID: 84861172194     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/11/3407     Document Type: Article

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