Brachytherapy
Volume 8, Issue 3 , Pages 318-323 , July 2009

A quantitative three-dimensional dose attenuation analysis around Fletcher-Suit-Delclos due to stainless steel tube for high-dose-rate brachytherapy by Monte Carlo calculations

Received 26 September 2007 ,Revised 25 March 2008 ,Accepted 25 November 2008.

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 This paper was presented at the AAPM 2006 annual meeting; Med Phys. 2006;33:2060.

PII: S1538-4721(08)00705-8

doi: 10.1016/j.brachy.2008.11.012

Brachytherapy
Volume 8, Issue 3 , Pages 318-323 , July 2009

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