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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) -
Hossein S. Yazdi,
Mojtaba Shamsaei,
Ramin Jaberi,
Hamid Reza Shabani,
Mahmoud Allahverdi,
S A Vaezzadeh
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/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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