CPB Ljubljana 2018 course book

Introduction on Dose Optimization

Catheter

Dose Calculation at a Point D a

Superposition-Method

1

Source dwell position No

r

1a

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2 3

1 T D 

1

T

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



a

a

1

2

2

2

r

r

a1

a2

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1

1

1

4

T

T

T



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



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3

4

5

r

2

2

2

r

r

r

5a

a3

a4

a5

5

T 5 are the dwell times of the source at the 5 dwell positions 1 , T 2 ,… T