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Recommended Dose Calculation Formalisms and Consensus Dosimetry Parameters for Intravascular Brachytherapy Dosimetry: An Update of the 1999 AAPM Task Group 60 Report

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Author(s)

Sou-Tung Chiu-Tsao, Dennis Schaart, Christopher G. Soares, Ravinder Nath

Abstract

Since the publication of AAPM Task Group 60 report in 1999, a considerable amount of dosimetry data for the three coronary brachytherapy systems in use in the United States has been reported. A subgroup of the AAPM working group on Unconventional Brachytherapy (Bruce Thomadsen, Chair) was charged to develop recommendations for dose calculation formalisms and the related consensus dosimetry parameters. Recommendations of this group are presented here. For the Cordis 192Ir and Novoste 90Sr/90Y systems, the original TG-43 formalism in spherical coordinates should be used along with the consensus values of the dose rate constant, geometry function, radial dose function and anisotropy function for the single seeds. Contributions from the single seeds should be added linearly for the calculation of dose distributions from a source train. For the Guidant 32P wire system, the modified TG-43 formalism in cylindrical coordinates along with the recommended data for the 20 and 27 mm wires should be used. Data tables for the 6, 10, 14, 18 and 22 seed trains of the Cordis system, 30, 40 and 60 mm seed trains of the Novoste system and the 20 and 27 mm wires of the Guidant system are presented along with our rationale and methodology for selecting the consensus data. Briefly, all available datasets were compared with each other and the consensus dataset was either an average of available data or the one obtained from the most densely populated study; in most cases this was a Monte Carlo calculation.
Citation
Medical Physics
Pub Type
Journals

Keywords

brachytherapy, dosimetry, intravascular brachytherapy, restenosis

Citation

Chiu-Tsao, S. , Schaart, D. , Soares, C. and Nath, R. (2021), Recommended Dose Calculation Formalisms and Consensus Dosimetry Parameters for Intravascular Brachytherapy Dosimetry: An Update of the 1999 AAPM Task Group 60 Report, Medical Physics (Accessed April 25, 2024)

Created October 12, 2021