Mathematical Models Used for Brachytherapy Treatment Planning Dose Calculation Algorithms
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چکیده
Brachytherapy treatment is primarily used for the certain handling kinds of cancerous tumors. Using radionuclides study tumors has been studied a very long time, but introduction mathematical models or radiobiological made planning easy. helps to compute survival probabilities irradiated tissues and cancer cells. With expansion using HDR-High dose rate LDR-low cancer, it requires fractionated does plan irradiate tumor. In this paper, authors have discussed calculation algorithms that are in planning. Precise less time-consuming calculations 3D distribution patient one important necessities modern radiation oncology. For required accurate which help TPS. There limitations with algorithm calculating dose. This work done evaluate correctness five presently employed planning, including pencil beam convolution (PBC), superposition (SP), anisotropic analytical (AAA), Monte Carlo (MC), Clarkson Method, Fast Fourier Transform, Convolution method. The radiotherapy categorized as correction‐based model‐based.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Baghdad Science Journal
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2078-8665', '2411-7986']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21123/bsj.2023.7015