Advanced Physics for Brachytherapy 2018

The problem …

• Let us start from the simplest case (point isotopic monoenergetic photon source in infinite medium of given composition) • If I know everything there is to know about the source and the medium, can I calculate dose at a point i …?

i

r

i ρ enμ (= prK D : prΨ)

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i

• BUT WHAT ABOUT SCATTER DOSE…?