Sealed Catheter-Based Beta Sources
for Intravascular Brachytherapy
Novel Designs & Dosimetric Characterization
By Dennis Schaart
December 2002
Delft University Press
ISBN: 90-407-2329-X
233 pages, 9 ½ x 11 5/8"
$69.50 Paper Original
Contents of this Doctoral Dissertation include: sealed catheter-based intravascular beta sources: design requirements and useful radionuclides, requirements for sealed catheter-based beta sources, radionuclides for sealed catheter-based beta sources, requirements for beta emitters, selected beta emitters and their properties, computational aspects of beta particle dosimetry for intravascular brachytherapy, electron transport in MCNP4C, on the applicability of the AAPM TG-60/TG-43 dose calculation formalism to intravascular line sources, dosimetric characterization of sealed catheter-based beta sources.
Cardiology
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