Code of practice for brachytherapy physics: Report of the AAPM Radiation Therapy Committee Task Group No. 56
Open Access
- 1 October 1997
- journal article
- guideline
- Published by Wiley in Medical Physics
- Vol. 24 (10) , 1557-1598
- https://doi.org/10.1118/1.597966
Abstract
Recommendations of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) for the practice of brachytherapy physics are presented. These guidelines were prepared by a task group of the AAPM Radiation Therapy Committee and have been reviewed and approved by the AAPM Science Council.Keywords
This publication has 66 references indexed in Scilit:
- The sievert integral revisited: Evaluation and extension to125I, 169Yb, and 192Ir brachytherapy sourcesInternational Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, 1996
- Quality assurance tool for high dose rate brachytherapyMedical Physics, 1995
- A versatile method for planning stereotactic brain implantsMedical Physics, 1993
- One-dimensional scatter-subtraction method for brachytherapy dose calculation near bounded heterogeneitiesMedical Physics, 1993
- Dose determination in high dose-rate brachytherapyInternational Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, 1992
- Tissue inhomogeneity correction for brachytherapy sources in a heterogeneous phantom with cylindrical symmetryMedical Physics, 1992
- CT-based optimized planning for transperineal prostate implant with customized templateInternational Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, 1991
- Comparison of measured and calculated dose distributions around an iridium-192 wireMedical Physics, 1988
- Experimental verification of cesium brachytherapy line source emission using a semiconductor detectorMedical Physics, 1988
- WORKING SAFELY AROUND IMPLANTED RADIATION SOURCESNursing2021, 1976