Open AccessDosimetry effects caused by unilateral and bilateral hip prostheses: A monte carlo case study in megavoltage photon radiotherapy for computed tomography data without metal artifacts
Author(s) -
Courage Mahuvava,
F.C.P. du Plessis
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of medical physics/journal of medical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.292
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1998-3913
pISSN - 0971-6203
DOI - 10.4103/jmp.jmp_70_18
Subject(s) - imaging phantom , monte carlo method , materials science , dosimetry , nuclear medicine , absorbed dose , attenuation , radiation therapy , radiation treatment planning , biomedical engineering , medicine , radiology , physics , optics , mathematics , statistics
Hip prostheses (HPs) are routinely used in hip augmentation to replace painful or dysfunctional hip joints. However, high-density and high-atomic-number (Z) inserts may cause dose perturbations in the target volume and interface regions.