Managing radiotherapy patients with implanted cardiac devices (implantable cardiac
pacemakers and implantable cardioverter‐defibrillators) has been a great practical and …

Dosimetry of ionising radiation is a well-established and mature branch of physical sciences
with many applications in medicine and biology. In particular radiotherapy relies on …

The introduction of advanced techniques and technology in radiotherapy has greatly
improved our ability to deliver highly conformal tumor doses while minimizing the dose to …

In 2006, the IAEA published the Fundamental Safety Principles (IAEA Safety Standards
Series No. SF-1). That publication sets out the fundamental safety objective and the …

Results: Except for the target organ, with the shield throughout the phantom, both
photoneutron and photon doses approximately reduced by 57-89% and 88-95 …

Innovations in cancer treatment have contributed to the improved survival rate of these
patients. Radiotherapy is one of the main options for cancer management nowadays. High …

Short-and long-term side effects following the treatment of cancer with radiation are strongly
related to the amount of dose deposited to the healthy tissue surrounding the tumor. The …

Medical linear accelerators (linacs) are the most frequently applied radiation therapy
machines in the locoregional treatment of cancers by producing either high-energy electron …

The electron, photon, and neutron spectra produced during the interaction between
monoenergetic electron beams (8, 10, 12, 15, and 18 MeV) and a 0.05 cm-thick tungsten …

External-beam radiation therapy is safe, effective and widely used to treat cancer. With 5-
year cancer survival for adults above 70%, increasingly research is focusing on quantifying …