A Study on the Dose Distributions in Various Materials from an Ir-192 HDR Brachytherapy Source

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Hsu, Shih Ming ^a   Wu, Chin Hui ^b   Lee, Jeng Hung ^c   Hsieh, Ya Ju ^d   Yu, Chun Yen ^a   Liao, Yi Jen ^e   Kuo, Li Cheng ^f   Liang, Ji An ^a   Huang, David Y C ^f  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH   (Taiwan)

^d KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^f MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRIDIUM 192; WATER;

ACCURACY; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BONE; BONE DENSITY; BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSIMETRY; LUNG; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION;

ANISOTROPY; BONE AND BONES; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FILM DOSIMETRY; GLASS; HUMANS; IRIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; LIGHT; LUMINESCENCE; LUNG; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; WATER;

EID: 84866019566     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044528     Document Type: Article

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