Advanced Brachytherapy Physics - Vienna 2016

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How important is D scat in brachy …? It associates the dose distribution with the entire calculation geometry (ρ, Z, di i ) h h j h h f i mens ons rat er t an ust t e pat rom a source to a po nt. E.g. for dimensions:

Figure from: Venselaar, Baltas, Meigooni, Hoskin (Eds), Comprehensive Brachytehrapy: physical and clinical aspects. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, © 2013