Abstract The American Association of Physicists in Medicine Task Group No. 43 (AAPM TG-
43) formalism is the standard for seeds brachytherapy dose calculation. But for breast seed …

A simple analytical dose rate calculation model based on primary and scatter separation that
treats 192 Ir as a monoenergetic source by use of appropriate attenuation and mass energy …

Current clinical practice for dose calculations for brachytherapy utilizes the TG-43 formalism
where absorbed dose is calculated in a homogeneous water environment. The formalism …

Purpose: In order to facilitate a smooth transition for brachytherapy dose calculations from
the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Task Group No. 43 (TG‐43) …

Anisotropy functions for low energy interstitial brachytherapy sources are examined.
Absolute dose rates around 103 Pd seed model 200 and 125 I seed models 6702 and 6711 …

The charge of Task Group 186 (TG‐186) is to provide guidance for early adopters of model‐
based dose calculation algorithms (MBDCAs) for brachytherapy (BT) dose calculations to …

Purpose Since its introduction more than twenty years ago, the American Association of
Physicists in Medicine Task Group 43 (AAPM TG-43) dose calculation formalism for photon …

192Ir high dose rate sources are widely used in brachytherapy applications by inserting
needles and catheters or implants that allow the source to reach tumor lesions in different …

Brachytherapy treatment planning systems (BTPS) are employing the American Association
of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Task Group 43 (TG‐43)‐recommended dosimetric …

Purpose: To validate Gpumcd, a new package for fast Monte Carlo dose calculations based
on the GPU (graphics processing unit), as a tool for low‐energy single seed brachytherapy …