Update of AAPM Task Group No. 43 Report: A revised AAPM protocol for brachytherapy dose calculations.
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Summary
An update of the TG-43 protocol for calculation of dose-rate distributions around photon-emitting brachytherapy sources is presented, and a unified approach to comparing reference dose distributions derived from different investigators to develop a single critically evaluated consensus dataset is recommended.
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- article
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- 2003-10-01
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- 1,825
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- Open access
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Keywords
Medicine, Task group, Brachytherapy, Protocol (science), Medical physics
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