Monte Carlo techniques have become popular in different areas of medical physics with
advantage of powerful computing systems. In particular, they have been extensively applied …

Purpose: The National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project Protocol B-27 was
designed to determine the effect of adding docetaxel after four cycles of preoperative …

From background physics and biological models to the latest imaging and treatment
modalities, the Handbook of Radiotherapy Physics: Theory and Practice covers all …

Theabsorbedradiationdosefrominternallyde… nuclides is a major factor in assessing risk
and therapeutic utility when evaluating new radiopharmaceuticals for use in nuclear …

Response and toxicity prediction is essential to rational implementation of cancer therapy.
The biologic effects of radionuclide therapy are mediated via a well-defined physical …

The availability of quantitative three-dimensional in vivo data on radionuclide distributions
within the body makes it possible to calculate the corresponding nonuniform distribution of …

The increasing availability of SPECT/CT devices with advanced technology offers the
opportunity for the accurate assessment of the radiation dose to the biological target volume …

Targeted radionuclide therapy (TRT) is an increasingly used treatment modality for a range
of cancers. To date, few treatments have involved the use of dosimetry either to plan …

This study was intended to verify the capability of the Monte Carlo MCNP-4B code to
evaluate spatial dose distribution based on information gathered from CT or SPECT …

Current methods forcalculating the absorbed dose inatarget region from a source region
relyon a standard †œreferenceman― geometry and assume an uniform distribution of …