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http://dx.doi.org/10.7742/jksr.2016.10.1.39

Dose Evaluation of the Man Adjacent to an Implanted Patient During the Prostate Cancer Brachytherapy  

Park, Euntae (Department of Radiation Oncology, Busan Paik Hospital, Inje University)
Kim, Junghoon (Department of Radiological Science, College of Health Sciences, Catholic University of Pusan)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology / v.10, no.1, 2016 , pp. 39-44 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study is fulfilled to evaluate the exposure dose nearby a patient during the brachytherapy of the prostate cancer treatment and to minimize the radiation exposure by evaluating the exposure dose of the person near the relevant implanted patient, technicians and gardians. The experiment method is used on the study is MCNPX that is stood on the basis monte-carlo method and implant the source to MIRD-type phantom in $^{192}Ir$, $^{125}I$, and $^{103}Pd$ in virtual space. For dose evaluations according to distance, the radiation dose on the patient near the corresponding implanted patient is evaluated by each distance of 30, 50, 100, 200 cm to anterior from the implanted patient. As a result, $^{192}Ir$ showed a higher dose than $^{125}I$ and $^{103}Pd$ in every distance.
Keywords
Prostate cancer; Brachytherapy; MIRD-type phantom; MCNPX;
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