Purpose: In high energy teletherapy, is known to be a very accurate and efficient Monte
Carlo (MC) code. In principle, the MC method is also a powerful dose calculation tool in …

Today's brachytherapy planning systems perform computation of energy deposition in
patients by assuming homogeneous water medium and multiplicative transmission factors …

Radiation Therapy Planning Systems (RTPS) currently used in hospitals contain algorithms
based on deterministic simplifications that do not properly consider electrons lateral …

Background. Interstitial rotating shield brachytherapy (I-RSBT) is a recently developed
method for treatment of prostate cancer. In the present study TG-43 dosimetric parameters of …

In the present study, a number of brachytherapy sources and activation media were
simulated using MCNPX code and the results were analyzed based on the dose …

The precision of AAPM TG-43 dose calculation formalism in heterogeneous media has been
studied based on the survey and evaluation of the status of interstitial brachytherapy. After a …

目的: Henschke 裝療管於近接治療造成的劑量擾動, 在最近幾年內受到關注,
為了瞭解劑量計算時有無含金屬遮蔽物, 對於劑量影響程度, 本研究將針對於Ir-192 …

Aim of Study: The report of the task group number 43 (TG-43) of AAPM has been known as
the most common method to obtain the dose distribution around brachytherapy sources. The …

Dose perturbation caused by the Henschke applicator is a major concern for the
brachytherapy planning system (BPS) in recent years. To investigate dose impact owing to …

Introduction: Brachytherapy is the use of small encapsulated radioactive sources in close
vicinity of tumors. Various methods are used to obtain the dose distribution around …