The effect of rib and lung heterogeneities on the computed dose to lung in Ir-192 High-Dose-Rate breast brachytherapy: Monte Carlo versus a treatment planning system | Zendy

S A Vaezzadeh | Zendy; HosseinSalehi Yazdi | Zendy; Mojtaba Shamsaei | Zendy; Ramin Jaberi | Zendy; HamidReza Shabani | Zendy; M. Allahverdi | Zendy

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The effect of rib and lung heterogeneities on the computed dose to lung in Ir-192 High-Dose-Rate breast brachytherapy: Monte Carlo versus a treatment planning system

Author(s) -

S A Vaezzadeh,

HosseinSalehi Yazdi,

Mojtaba Shamsaei,

Ramin Jaberi,

HamidReza Shabani,

M. Allahverdi

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

journal of cancer research and therapeutics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475

H-Index - 39

eISSN - 0973-1482

pISSN - 1998-4138

DOI - 10.4103/0973-1482.103519

Subject(s) - monte carlo method , nuclear medicine , radiation treatment planning , brachytherapy , rib cage , imaging phantom , medicine , lung , radiology , radiation therapy , mathematics , anatomy , statistics

This study investigates to what extent the dose received by lungs from a commercially available treatment planning system, Ir-192 high-dose-rate (HDR), in breast brachytherapy, is accurate, with the emphasis on tissue heterogeneities, and taking into account the presence of ribs, in dose delivery to the lung.

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