Dose to tissue medium or water cavities as surrogate for the dose to cell nuclei at brachytherapy photon energies

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 4489-4500

  Enger, Shirin A ^a   Ahnesjö, Anders ^b,c   Verhaegen, Frank ^d,e   Beaulieu, Luc ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Elekta AB   (Sweden)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBED DOSE; BIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST TISSUES; CAVITY THEORY; CELL NUCLEUS; CONVERSION FACTOR; DNA CONTENT; DOSE CALCULATION; ELEMENTAL COMPOSITIONS; HYDROGEN CONTENTS; LOW ENERGIES; LOWER ENERGIES; MEAN ENERGY; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; MUSCLE TISSUES; PHOTON ENERGY; SMALL CAVITIES; SPHERICAL CAVITIES; TARGET COMPOSITION; TARGET SIZE; TISSUE TYPES; TREATMENT PLANNING;

HISTOLOGY; IRIDIUM; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MUSCLE; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; UROLOGY;

PHOTONS;

WATER;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

BRACHYTHERAPY; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; WATER;

EID: 84863520156     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/14/4489     Document Type: Article

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