Abstract：
:The American Association of Physicists in Medicine recommends that the reference dose-rate distribution, used for treatment planning for low-energy photon brachytherapy sources in routine clinical use, must be based on at least two independent determinations: one using experimentally measured dose rates and one using Monte Carlo simulation dosimetry techniques. In this work, we present an approach for developing consensus dosimetry parameters from various independent reference dosimetry studies for interstitial brachytherapy sources. This approach is applied to four recently published papers on the dosimetric properties of the BrachySeed Model LS-1 125I seed. Consensus values for the dose-rate constant, radial dose function, and anisotropy parameters are presented for the LS-1 Model 125I seed.
journal_name
Med Physjournal_title
Medical physicsauthors
Chan GH,Nath R,Williamson JF,American Association of Physicists in Medicine.doi
10.1118/1.1690712subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2004-05-01 00:00:00pages
1040-5issue
5eissn
0094-2405issn
2473-4209journal_volume
31pub_type
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