Limitations of the TG-43 formalism for skin high-dose-rate brachytherapy dose calculations

Medical Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Granero, Domingo ^a   Perez Calatayud, Jose ^b   Vijande, Javier ^c,e   Ballester, Facundo ^c   Rivard, Mark J ^d  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO DE VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA FE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^d TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e INSTITUTO DE FÍSICA CORPUSCULAR IFIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

brachytherapy; Co 60; Geant4; HDR; Ir 192; Monte Carlo; skin; Yb 169

Indexed keywords

CATHETERS; MOLDS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; SKIN;

BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE RATE DISTRIBUTIONS; GEANT4; HIGH-DOSE-RATE BRACHYTHERAPY; MONTE CARLO RADIATION TRANSPORT CODE; SCATTERED RADIATIONS; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

SURFACE TREATMENT;

COBALT 60; IRIDIUM 192; PENTETATE YTTERBIUM YB 169;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BRACHYTHERAPY IMPLANT; DOSIMETRY; HIGH DOSE RATE BRACHYTHERAPY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING SYSTEM; SKIN; SKIN SURFACE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOMETRY;

BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SKIN;

EID: 84893132514     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4860175     Document Type: Article

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