A method for checking high dose rate treatment times for vaginal applicators

A method is presented for checking the treatment time calculation for high dose rate (HDR) vaginal cylinder treatments. The method represents an independent check of the HDR planning system and can take into account nonuniform isodose line coverage around the cylinder. Only the air kerma strength of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Mayo, Charles S., Ulin, Kenneth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2001
Materias:
Radiation Oncology Physics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5726014/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11686739
http://dx.doi.org/10.1120/jacmp.v2i4.2595
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Sumario:A method is presented for checking the treatment time calculation for high dose rate (HDR) vaginal cylinder treatments. The method represents an independent check of the HDR planning system and can take into account nonuniform isodose line coverage around the cylinder. Only the air kerma strength of the source and information that is available from the written directive are required. The maximum discrepancy for a representative set of cylinder plans done on a Nucletron unit was 5%. A working HTML JavaScript program is included in the Appendix. PACS number(s): 87.53.–j, 87.90.+y

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