Monte Carlo dosimetry for a new 32P brachytherapy source using FLUKA code.

Conclusions: This work fully characterizes dosimetric parameters of the sheathed and unsheathed new 32P brachytherapy sources in water and different tissue phantoms by using FLUKA code. The results demonstrate that the dose distribution in water differed from the calculated ones in tissue phantoms due to the densities and atomic composition for tissues that are not taken account by the TG-60 formalism. PMID: 30911314 [PubMed]
Source: Journal of Contemporary Brachytherapy - Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: J Contemp Brachytherapy Source Type: research