Open AccessA method for checking high dose rate treatment times for vaginal applicators
Author(s) -
Mayo Charles S.,
Ulin Kenneth
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal of applied clinical medical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.83
H-Index - 48
ISSN - 1526-9914
DOI - 10.1120/jacmp.v2i4.2595
Subject(s) - dose rate , medical physics , computer science , nuclear medicine , medicine
A method is presented for checking the treatment time calculation for high dose rate (HDR) vaginal cylinder treatments. The method represents an independent check of the HDR planning system and can take into account nonuniform isodose line coverage around the cylinder. Only the air kerma strength of the source and information that is available from the written directive are required. The maximum discrepancy for a representative set of cylinder plans done on a Nucletron unit was 5%. A working HTML JavaScript program is included in the Appendix. PACS number(s): 87.53.–j, 87.90.+y