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  title info:
    title: MCNP modeling of prostate brachytherapy and organ dosimetry
  name:
    name part: Usgaonker, Susrut Rajanikant
    name part: 1978-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Poston, Sr., John W.
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2003
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: Using the computer code Monte Carlo N-Particle (MCNP), doses were calculated for organs of interest such as the large intestine, urinary bladder, testes, and kidneys while patients were undergoing prostate brachytherapy. This research is important because the doses delivered to the prostate are extremely high and the organs near the prostate are potentially at risk for receiving high doses of radiation, leading to increased probabilities of adverse health effects such as cancer. In this research, two MCNP version 4C codes were used to calculate the imparted energies to the organs of interest delivered by 125I and 103Pd. As expected, the organs nearest to the prostate received the highest energy depositions and the organs farthest from the prostate received the lowest energy depositions. Once the energy depositions were calculated, the doses to the organs were calculated using the known volumes and densities of the organs. Finally, the doses to the organs over an infinite time period were calculated.
  note: by Susrut Rajanikant Usgaonker.
  note: "Major Subject: Health Physics."
  note: Title from author supplied metadata.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: M.S. Texas A & M University 2003.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Thesis).
  subject:
    topic: Major health physics
  subject:
    topic: brachytherapy
  subject:
    topic: prostate
  subject:
    topic: I-125
  subject:
    topic: Pd-103
  subject:
    topic: MCNP
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/305
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 030912
    record change date: 20151025094946.0
    record identifier: in00001767581