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Monte Carlo Application in Brachytherapy Dosimetry

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Radiotherapy and Brachytherapy

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Abstract

This paper devoted to Monte-Carlo Applications in BT Dosimetry is organized in four parts:

  1. 1.

    Motivation of the use of Monte Carlo in brachytherapy

  2. 2.

    The use of Monte Carlo to obtain dose distribution around brachytherapy sources

  3. 3.

    Experimental dosimetry versus Monte Carlo

  4. 4.

    Others Monte Carlo applications in brachytherapy

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  1. Physics Section. Radiotherapy Department, La Fe University Hospital, Valencia, Spain

    Jose Perez-Calatayud & Domingo Granero CabaÑero

  2. Department of Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics, University of Valencia, Spain

    Facundo Ballester Pallarés

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Perez-Calatayud, J., CabaÑero, D.G., Pallarés, F.B. (2009). Monte Carlo Application in Brachytherapy Dosimetry. In: Lemoigne, Y., Caner, A. (eds) Radiotherapy and Brachytherapy. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3097-9_21

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