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A New Approach for Heterogeneity Corrections for Cs-137 Brachytherapy Sources

BACKGROUND: Most of the current brachytherapy treatment planning systems (TPS) use the TG-43U1 recommendations for dosimetry in water phantom, not considering the heterogeneity effects. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study is developing a method for obtaining correction factors for heterogeneity for...

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Autores principales: Sina, S., Faghihi, R., Meigooni, A. S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Shiraz University of Medical Sciences 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4479386/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26157730