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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Autores principales: Mayo, Charles S., Ulin, Kenneth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2001
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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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description 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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spelling pubmed-57260142018-04-02 A method for checking high dose rate treatment times for vaginal applicators Mayo, Charles S. Ulin, Kenneth J Appl Clin Med Phys Radiation Oncology Physics 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 John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2001-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5726014/ /pubmed/11686739 http://dx.doi.org/10.1120/jacmp.v2i4.2595 Text en © 2001 The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short A method for checking high dose rate treatment times for vaginal applicators
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5726014/
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