High dose rate 192Ir brachytherapy source model Monte Carlo dosimetry: mHDR-v2 and mHDR-v2r.

ABSTRACT: After 2010, the source model of the microSelectron HDR Afterloader System was slightly modified from the previous model. Granero et al. named the modified source model "mHDR-v2r (revised model mHDR-v2)" and the previous model "mHDR-v2". They concluded that the dosimetric differences arising from the dimensional changes between the mHDR-v2 and mHDR-v2r designs were negligible at almost all locations (within 0.5% for r ≥ 0.25 cm), the two-dimensional anisotropy function difference between the two sources is found 2.1% at r = 1.0 cm when compared with the results of the other experimental group. To confirm this difference, we performed a full Monte Carlo simulation without energy-fluence approximation. This is useful near the radiation source where charged-particle equilibrium does not hold.

SUBMITTER: Tsuji S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10857611 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature