Dose calculation for photon-emitting brachytherapy sources with average energy higher than 50 keV: Report of the AAPM and ESTRO

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2904-2929

  Perez Calatayud, Jose ^a   Ballester, Facundo ^b   Das, Rupak K ^c   Dewerd, Larry A ^c   Ibbott, Geoffrey S ^d   Meigooni, Ali S ^e   Ouhib, Zoubir ^f   Rivard, Mark J ^g   Sloboda, Ron S ^h   Williamson, Jeffrey F ⁱ  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA FE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^e Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology   (United States)

^f Lynn Regional Cancer Center   (United States)

^g TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h CROSS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

ⁱ VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

brachytherapy; experimental dosimetry; high energy brachytherapy sources; Monte Carlo; quality assurance; TG 43 formalism

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; INTERPOLATION; ONCOLOGY; PHANTOMS; PHOTONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIOTHERAPY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BRACHYTHERAPY; CHARACTERIZATION METHODS; EXPERIMENTAL PROCEDURE; EXTRAPOLATION TECHNIQUES; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; RADIAL DOSE FUNCTION; SPECIFICATION METHODOLOGIES; TG-43 FORMALISM;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 84861607383     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3703892     Document Type: Article

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