Physical and Dosimetric Aspects of the Iridium-Knife

The three-dimensional iridium-192 ((192)Ir) high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy manifests itself as a high-precision, hypofractionated, dose-escalating, minimally invasive method in the armamentarium of contemporary radiation oncology clinical applications. In this study, the physical aspects of the...

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Autores principales: Roussakis, Yiannis, Anagnostopoulos, Georgios
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
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Oncology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8630660/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34858815
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2021.728452
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description The three-dimensional iridium-192 ((192)Ir) high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy manifests itself as a high-precision, hypofractionated, dose-escalating, minimally invasive method in the armamentarium of contemporary radiation oncology clinical applications. In this study, the physical aspects of the (192)Ir radionuclide are presented. Its dosimetric application in HDR brachytherapy for different anatomical sites (prostate, gynecological malignancies, liver, and intrathoracic tumors) as well as the corresponding dosimetric comparison with the stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) techniques based on a representative selection of dosimetric publications is reviewed and illustrated.
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spelling pubmed-86306602021-12-01 Physical and Dosimetric Aspects of the Iridium-Knife Roussakis, Yiannis Anagnostopoulos, Georgios Front Oncol Oncology The three-dimensional iridium-192 ((192)Ir) high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy manifests itself as a high-precision, hypofractionated, dose-escalating, minimally invasive method in the armamentarium of contemporary radiation oncology clinical applications. In this study, the physical aspects of the (192)Ir radionuclide are presented. Its dosimetric application in HDR brachytherapy for different anatomical sites (prostate, gynecological malignancies, liver, and intrathoracic tumors) as well as the corresponding dosimetric comparison with the stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) techniques based on a representative selection of dosimetric publications is reviewed and illustrated. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-11-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8630660/ /pubmed/34858815 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2021.728452 Text en Copyright © 2021 Roussakis and Anagnostopoulos https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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title_short Physical and Dosimetric Aspects of the Iridium-Knife
title_sort physical and dosimetric aspects of the iridium-knife
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8630660/
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