Purpose: Recommendations of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)
and the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO) on dose calculations for …

This study presents the results of EGSnrc Monte Carlo calculations of the dose distribution
surrounding a high dose rate brachytherapy source and 14 high dose rate and pulsed dose …

Gold nanoparticles can enhance the biological effective dose of radiation delivered to
tumors, but few data exist to quantify this effect. The purpose of this project was to build a …

Purpose To update and extend version 2 of the Carleton Laboratory for Radiotherapy
Physics (CLRP) TG‐43 dosimetry database (CLRP_TG43v2) for high‐energy (HE,≥ 50 …

In this work, the dose rate distribution of a new high dose rate source (Flexisource used in
the afterloading Flexitron system, Isodose Control, Veenendaal, The Netherlands) is studied …

Purpose: To evaluate the accuracy of clinical dosimetry planning using commercially
available treatment planning systems in 192Ir high-dose-rate (HDR) breast brachytherapy …

Several solid phantom materials have been tested regarding their suitability as water
substitutes for dosimetric measurements in brachytherapy with 192 Ir as a typical high …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: High dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy is a highly extended
practice in clinical brachytherapy today. Quality dose rate distribution datasets of the HDR …

sources besides being widely utilized in the field of conventional brachytherapy also find
use in contemporary peripheral and coronal intravascular applications. In this study, the …

A simple, time efficient, analytical model incorporating heterogeneities and body dimensions
around a point 192 Ir source is generalized for accurate dosimetry around commercially …