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Approaches to calculating AAPM TG-43 brachytherapy dosimetry parameters for 137Cs, 125I, 192Ir, 103Pd, and 169Yb sources.

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:Underlying characteristics in brachytherapy dosimetry parameters for medical radionuclides 137Cs, 125I, 192Ir, 103Pd, and 169Yb were examined using Monte Carlo methods. Sources were modeled as unencapsulated point or line sources in liquid water to negate variations due to materials and construction. Importance of phantom size, mode of radiation transport physics--i.e., photon transport only or coupled photon:electron transport, phantom material, volume averaging, and Monte Carlo tally type were studied. For noninfinite media, g(r) was found to degrade as r approached R, the phantom radius. MCNP5 results were in agreement with those published using GEANT4. Brachytherapy dosimetry parameters calculated using coupled photon:electron radiation transport simulations did not differ significantly from those using photon transport only. Dose distributions from low-energy photon-emitting radionuclides 125I and 103Pd were sensitive to phantom material by upto a factor of 1.4 and 2.0, respectively, between tissue-equivalent materials and water at r =9 cm. In comparison, high-energy photons from 137Cs, 192Ir, and 169Yb demonstrated +/- 5% differences in dose distributions between water and tissue substitutes at r=20 cm. Similarly, volume-averaging effects were found to be more significant for low-energy radionuclides. When modeling line sources with L < or = 0.5 cm, the two-dimensional anisotropy function was largely within +/- 0.5% of unity for 137Cs, 125I, and 192Ir. However, an energy and geometry effect was noted for 103Pd and 169Yb, with Pd-103F(0.5,0 degrees)=l.05 and yb-169F(0.5,0 degrees)=0.98 for L=0.5 cm. Simulations of monoenergetic photons for L=0.5 cm produced energy-dependent variations in F(r, theta) having a maximum value at 10 keV, minimum at 50 keV, and approximately 1.0 for higher-energy photons up to 750 keV. Both the F6 cell heating and *F4 track-length estimators were employed to determine brachytherapy dosimetry parameters. F6 was found to be necessary for g(r), while both tallies provided equivalent results for F(r, theta).

journal_name

Med Phys

journal_title

Medical physics

authors

Melhus CS,Rivard MJ

doi

10.1118/1.2199987

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2006-06-01 00:00:00

pages

1729-37

issue

eissn

0094-2405

issn

2473-4209

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Approaches to calculating AAPM TG-43 brachytherapy dosimetry parameters for 137Cs, 125I, 192Ir, 103Pd, and 169Yb sources.