By Jose Feola (auth.), Jacek G. Wierzbicki (eds.)
ISBN-10: 9401064334
ISBN-13: 9789401064330
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Californium-252 is a neutron emitter with a excessive particular task, making it invaluable in a number of purposes, the main stunning of that is in brachytherapy for melanoma sufferers. Radiation oncology has exhausted approximately each alternative for treating radioresistant tumors by way of photon brachytherapy, and as a result new kinds of radiation must be studied to enhance the curability of melanoma.
Audience: Californium brachytherapy is utilized in just a couple of radiation remedy facilities on the planet, so the ebook may be hugely instructive for radiation oncologists, scientific physicists and radiobiologists. The nuclear ideas utilized in medical purposes can also curiosity nuclear physicists and engineers.
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These tables, or their various combinations, could then be entered into the treatment planning computer. This was an identical procedure as previously practiced for radium. Additionally, accuracy of the dose determination at any point was estimated to be within 6% of two standard deviations. The same method was used by Anderson et a/ [5] to construct along & away tables for afterloading seeds with an active length 4 rom; however, such seeds have never been used clinically. Table 8. Neutron Dose Distribution [3] in cGy JIg" h".
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