Dosimetric characterization of elongated brachytherapy sources using Monte Carlo methods
Current brachytherapy treatment planning systems are unable to accurately calculate dose distributions in the vicinity of brachytherapy sources having active lengths much greater than 5 mm. While low dose-rate ¹³⁷Cs sources are dosimetrically characterized using antiquated along-away tables with sim...
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Georgia Institute of Technology
2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/33923 |