Monte Carlo Dosimetry of the 60Co BEBIG High Dose Rate for Brachytherapy.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The use of high-dose-rate brachytherapy is currently a widespread practice worldwide. The most common isotope source is 192Ir, but 60Co is also becoming available for HDR. One of main advantages of 60Co compared to 192Ir is the economic and practical benefit because of its longer half-live, which is 5.27 years. Recently, Eckert & Ziegler BEBIG, Germany, introduced a new afterloading brachytherapy machine (MultiSource®); it has the option to use either the 60Co or 192Ir HDR source. The source for the Monte Carlo calculations is the new 60Co source (model Co0.A86), which is referred to as the new BEBIG 60Co HDR source and is a modified version of the 60Co source (model GK60M21), which is also from BEBIG.

Objective and methods

The purpose of this work is to obtain

SUBMITTER: Campos LT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4587958 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature