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Guideline
. 1999 Feb;26(2):119-52.
doi: 10.1118/1.598496.

Intravascular brachytherapy physics: report of the AAPM Radiation Therapy Committee Task Group no. 60. American Association of Physicists in Medicine

R Nath  1 , H Amols, C Coffey, D Duggan, S Jani, Z Li, M Schell, C Soares, J Whiting, P E Cole, I Crocker, R Schwartz
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Intravascular brachytherapy physics: report of the AAPM Radiation Therapy Committee Task Group no. 60. American Association of Physicists in Medicine

R Nath et al. Med Phys. 1999 Feb.

Abstract

Recent preclinical and clinical studies indicate that irradiation using ionizing radiation in the dose range of 15 to 30 Gy may reduce the occurrence of restenosis in patients who have undergone an angioplasty. Several delivery systems of intravascular brachytherapy have been developed to deliver radiation doses in this range with minimal normal tissue toxicity. In late 1995 the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) formed a task group to investigate these issues and to report the current state of the art of intravascular brachytherapy physics. The report of this task group is presented here.

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