The radial dose function of low-energy brachytherapy seeds in different solid phantoms: comparison between calculations with the EGSnrc and MCNP4C Monte Carlo codes and measurements

Physics in Medicine and Biology - Tập 49 Số 8 - Trang 1569-1582 - 2004
Brigitte Reniers1, Frank Verhaegen2, S. Vynckier1
1Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Service de Radiothérapie Oncologique, Université Catholique de Louvain, Bruxelles, Belgium
2Medical Physics Unit, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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