Applicator Attenuation Effect on Dose Calculations of Esophageal High-Dose Rate Brachytherapy Using EDR2 Film

Applicator Attenuation Effect on Dose Calculations of Esophageal High-Dose Rate Brachytherapy Using EDR2 Film

Introduction Interaluminal brachytherapy is one of the important methods of esophageal cancer treatment. The effect of applicator attenuation is not considered in dose calculation method released by AAPM-TG43. In this study, the effect of High-Dose Rate (HDR) brachytherapy esophageal applicator on d...

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Main Authors: Seyed Mohsen Hosseini Daghigh, Seied Rabi Mahdavi, Seyed Mahmoud Aghamiri, Ramin Jaberi, Hamid Reza Baghani, Ramezan Eidi, Elham Boroghani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Mashhad University of Medical Sciences 2012-03-01
Series:Iranian Journal of Medical Physics
Subjects:
Brachytherapy
Film Dosimetry
PMMA
Online Access:http://ijmp.mums.ac.ir/article_326_fd89a1ed50fd3124b1bbd41bbb2cc3b1.pdf

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