3D-printed applicators for high dose rate brachytherapy: Dosimetric assessment at different infill percentage

Physica Medica

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 1698-1706

  Ricotti, Rosalinda ^a   Vavassori, Andrea ^a   Bazani, Alessia ^a   Ciardo, Delia ^a   Pansini, Floriana ^a   Spoto, Ruggero ^a,b   Sammarco, Vittorio ^b   Cattani, Federica ^a   Baroni, Guido ^c,d   Orecchia, Roberto ^a,b   Jereczek Fossa, Barbara Alicja ^a,b  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^d Centro Nazionale Adroterapia Oncologica CNAO   (Italy)

Author keywords

3D printing; Applicator; Brachytherapy; Dosimetry; Infill percentage; Low cost 3D printer

Indexed keywords

ACRYLONITRILE BUTADIENE STYRENE; STYRENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FILM; GAMMA IRRADIATION; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; PRINTING; RADIATION APPLICATOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOCHEMISTRY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL PRINTING; WHOLE BODY SCANNER; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICES; FILM DOSIMETRY; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE;

ABSORPTION, RADIATION; BRACHYTHERAPY; FILM DOSIMETRY; PRINTING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE;

EID: 84994176319     PISSN: 11201797     EISSN: 1724191X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmp.2016.08.016     Document Type: Article

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