Research Article
Dose Distributions of an 192Ir Brachytherapy Source in Different Media
Table 2
Dose-rate constant,
, calculated by MCNPX code for the
Ir microSelectron source centered in a spherical tissue phantom with
cm.
| | Author | Medium | (cGy h−1 U−1) |
| | Williamson and Li [11] | 30 cm water phantom | 1.115 (±0.5%) | |
Karaiskos et al. [12] | 30 cm water phantom | 1.116 (±0.5%) |
| | This study | 30 cm water phantom | 1.115 (±0.9%) | | 30 cm bone phantom | 1.097 (±0.9%) | | 30 cm lung phantom | 0.984 (±0.9%) |
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