Radioactive sources used in brachytherapy must be dosimetrically characterized prior to clinical use as defined the TG-43 protocol. In our previous project, Gafchromic film dosimetry was used to experimentally obtain the anisotropy function for an M-19 iridium-192 brachytherapy seed being developed by Source Production Equipment Corp (St. Rose, LA). In this project, the Monte Carlo N-Particle Transport code (MCNP) was used to computationally obtain the full set of TG-43 parameters including the Dose Rate Constant, the Reference Dose Rate, the Radial Dose Function, and the Anisotropy Constant for the M-19 seed.

Creator

• Fong, Kenneth B

Colaboradores

• Stroe, Izabela
• Medich, David Christopher
• Iannacchione, Germano S.

Degree

• MS

Unit

• Physics

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• etd-2341

Palabra Clave

• MCNP
• Gafchromic film
• Brachytherapy
• Dosimetry

Advisor

• Medich, David Christopher

Orcid

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3242-0670

Committee

• Stroe, Izabela
• Iannacchione, Germano
• Medich, David C

Defense date

• 2019-12-13

Year

• 2019

Date created

• 2019-08-03

Resource type

• Thesis

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Última modificación

• 2023-09-20