Transit dosimetry in 192Ir high dose rate brachytherapy

Background and purpose: Historically HDR brachytherapy treatment planning systems ignore the transit dose in the computation of patient dose. However, the total radiation dose delivered during each treatment cycle is equal to the sum of the static dose and the transit dose and every HDR applicati...

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Main Author: Ade, Nicholas
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10539/8905