General information
By clicking here you will be taken to a page that contains dosimetry data for selected photon emitting brachytherapy sources which are most commonly used in the European area. Most of them have a world wide spread. The focus is on high energy photon emitting sources used in manual and remotely controlled afterloading brachytherapy technique: caesium-137, iridium-192 and cobalt-60, and one caesium-131 source. See Section 5.1 "High Energy Sources" in General Dosimetry Data.
Furthermore, full data sets are included in some iodine-125 and palladium-103 seed sources which comply with the dosimetric prerequisites of the AAPM TG-43 subcommittee. See Section 5.2 in
General Dosimetry Data and also Rivard et al 2004.
Data sets of photon emitting sources, containing dosimetric parameters and reference data for brachytherapy applications, are presented following the dosimetry formalism recommended by the AAPM TG-43. The data sets include:
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General information,
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Links to the abstracts of the original publications,
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Source design,
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Dose rate table (along-away),
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Geometry function,
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Dose rate constant,
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Radial dose function,
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Anisotropy function and, if available, anisotropy factor
Whenever available, the following data are also included:
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Additional references,
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Optmised parameters for use with the algorithms based on the Sievert integral approximation (see example chapter 8 in the ESTRO
booklet Nr.8)
Several other links and references are given in these pages relevant to brachytherapy dosimetry.