Dose Distributions of an <sup>192</sup>Ir Brachytherapy Source in Different Media

<table>Anisotropy functions calculated by MCNPX code at <svg height="11.125" id="M33" style="vertical-align:-0.1638pt" version="1.1" viewbox="0 0 34.875 11.125" width="34.875" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
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</svg>, 2, 3, 5 and 10 cm from the source center. The MC results of Williamson and Li and Karaiskos et al. are also plotted for comparison.</table>

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Figure 6: Dose Distributions of an <sup>192</sup>Ir Brachytherapy Source in Different Media 

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Dose Distributions of an 192Ir Brachytherapy Source in Different Media

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Dose Distributions of an ¹⁹²Ir Brachytherapy Source in Different Media