The coupling of anisotropy and radial dose functions for 103Pd and 125I for use with a commercial treatment planning system

Med Phys. 1997 Apr;24(4):523-5. doi: 10.1118/1.597982.

Abstract

Many commercial treatment planning systems available today employ traditional dose calculation formulae in their interstitial brachytherapy source calculation algorithms. The 1995 AAPM report on interstitial brachytherapy source dosimetry recommended a new dose calculational formalism and presented a technique for adopting it on systems which embody traditional formalism. In order to comply with these recommendations on our system, the transformations for implementing a one dimensional isotropic point source model were modified by coupling the published anisotropy and radial dose corrections and fitting them to a fifth order polynomial. Using this approach, a more accurate dose calculation is obtained.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Brachytherapy*
  • Iodine Radioisotopes / therapeutic use*
  • Models, Theoretical*
  • Palladium / therapeutic use*
  • Radioisotopes / therapeutic use*
  • Radiotherapy Dosage
  • Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted*
  • Reproducibility of Results

Substances

  • Iodine Radioisotopes
  • Radioisotopes
  • Palladium