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  title info:
    title: Dosimetric characteristics and a standard for the ¹⁹⁸Au seed used in interstitial brachytherapy
  name:
    name part: Dauffy, Lucile S.
    name part: 1972-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 2003
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xix, 200 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
  abstract: Cancer of the prostate can be treated in different ways. One of them, brachytherapy, is an internal irradiation method consisting of the placement of radioactive sources, called seeds, into the tumor. This work deals with the dosimetry of the ¹⁹⁸Au interstitial brachytherapy source. In order to facilitate its clinical use and to obtain the data to be employed in the latest treatment planning systems, new quantities and a potential calibration standard are studied. These quantities, based on dose rates, were recommended in 1995 by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine Task Group 43, AAPM TG-43, and have not previously been obtained for ¹⁹⁸Au. They are measured in a solid water phantom using thermoluminescent detectors, and calculated using the Monte Carlo N-Particle code, MCNP, and simple analytic models. In the last part of this work, the "¹⁹⁸Au equivalent" activity of ¹³⁷Cs and ¹⁹²Ir surrogate seeds is calculated since the National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST, does not provide a standard for the short half-life ¹⁹⁸Au source that would allow checking the activity of the seeds before use on patients. This calculation is done by simulating the response of the Sun Nuclear ionization chamber, model 1008, with MCNP 4C. The air kerma strength, S[k], per unit apparent activity is found equal to 2.0627 (MCNP) and 2.0889 U mCi⁻¹ (measured). S[k] per unit activity is 1.8050 U mCi-1 (MCNP). The dose rate constant per unit apparent activity, []/A[app], is equal to 2.3099 (MCNP) and 2.2878 cGy h⁻¹ mCi⁻¹ (measured). This same quantity per unit air kerma strength is 1.1198 (MCNP) and 1.0952 cGy h⁻¹ U⁻¹ (measured). The values of the radial dose function, g(r), the anisotropy function, F(r,[Ø]), the anisotropy factor, [Øa]n(r), and the anisotropy constant are also given. Finally, the "¹⁹⁸Au equivalent" activity for the ¹⁹²Ir surrogate seed is equal to 1.9549 times the real activity of the ¹⁹²Ir seed, and that for the ¹³⁷Cs surrogate seed is 1.4895 times …
  note: by Lucile S. Dauffy.
  note: Vita.
  note: "Major Subject: Nuclear Engineering".
  note: Issued also on microfiche from University Microfilm Inc.
  note: Ph. D. Texas A&M University 2003
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 141-155).
  subject:
    topic: Major nuclear engineering
  identifier: 30-88133 UMI
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    record creation date: 040203
    record change date: 20190325110754.0
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