Advanced Physics for Brachytherapy 2018

Recommendations

• Extract electron density from CT calibration (see TG53, TG66 …)

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Use the density from CT for each voxel Use recommended tissue compositions ▪ Organ-based (contoured) assignments o Prostate from Woodard et al, BJR 59 (1986) 1209-18 o All others from ICRU-46 composition ▪ From CT calibration: breast, adipose, muscle and bone

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