Estimation of Secondary Skin Cancer Risk Due To Electron Contamination in 18-MV LINAC-Based Prostate Radiotherapy

Introduction Accurate estimation of the skin-absorbed dose in external radiation therapy is essential to estimating the probability of secondary carcinogenesis induction Materials and Methods Electron contamination in prostate radiotherapy was investigated using the Monte Carlo (MC) code calculation...

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Main Authors: Seyed Mostafa Ghavami, Hosein Ghiasi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Mashhad University of Medical Sciences 2016-12-01
Series:Iranian Journal of Medical Physics
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Online Access:http://ijmp.mums.ac.ir/article_8292_56c263ad8ebf8cf7f5bd0f4a8f29a449.pdf