Establishment of Ge-doped optical fibres as thermoluminescence dosimeters for brachytherapy

Applied Radiation and Isotopes

Volumn 70, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1158-1161

  Issa, Fatma ^a,d   Abdul Rahman, A T ^a,f   Hugtenburg, Richard P ^b   Bradley, David A ^a,e   Nisbet, Andrew ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL SURREY COUNTY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d Tripoli Medical Centre (TMC)   (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)

^e KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^f UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Ge doped optical fibres; Monte Carlo; TLD

Indexed keywords

BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSE DEPOSITION; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; HIGH DYNAMIC RANGE; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO CODES; RADIOACTIVE SOURCES; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETER; TLD; TRANSVERSE AXIS;

DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; GERMANIUM; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ONCOLOGY; OPTICAL FIBERS; RADIOTHERAPY;

THERMOLUMINESCENCE;

BARIUM; BARIUM 133; CARBON MONOXIDE; CARBON MONOXIDE 60; GERMANIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENCAPSULATION; IRRADIATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOACTIVITY; RADIOSENSITIVITY; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETER;

BRACHYTHERAPY; GERMANIUM; HUMANS; OPTICAL FIBERS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY;

EID: 84862235900     PISSN: 09698043     EISSN: 18729800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2011.12.027     Document Type: Article

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