Advanced Brachytherapy Physics - Vienna 2016

Recommendations • Extract electron density from CT calibration (see TG53, TG66 …)  Use the density from CT for each voxel  Use recommended tissue compositions  Organ-based (contoured) assignments o Prostate from Woodard et al, BJR 59 (1986) 1209-18 All h f C 6 i i o ot ers rom I RU-4 compos t on  From CT calibration: breast, adipose, muscle and bone