Distortions induced by radioactive seeds into interstitial brachytherapy dose distributions
- Center for Nondestructive Evaluation, Iowa State University Applied Sciences Complex II, 1915 Scholl Road, Ames, Iowa 50011-3042 (United States)
In a previous article, we presented development and verification of an integral transport equation-based deterministic algorithm for computing three-dimensional brachytherapy dose distributions. Recently, we have included fluorescence radiation physics and parallel computation to the standing algorithms so that we can compute dose distributions for a large set of seeds without resorting to the superposition methods. The introduction of parallel computing capability provided a means to compute the dose distribution for multiple seeds in a simultaneous manner. This provided a way to study strong heterogeneity and shadow effects induced by the presence of multiple seeds in an interstitial brachytherapy implant. This article presents the algorithm for computing fluorescence radiation, algorithm for parallel computing, and display results for an 81-seed implant that has a perfect and imperfect lattice. The dosimetry data for a single model 6711 seeds is presented for verification and heterogeneity factor computations using simultaneous and superposition techniques are presented.
- OSTI ID:
- 20634531
- Journal Information:
- Medical Physics, Vol. 31, Issue 12; Other Information: DOI: 10.1118/1.1820011; (c) 2004 American Association of Physicists in Medicine; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-2405
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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