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  • Radiation Oncology
  • Nuclear Engineering

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  • Accurate dose rate constants are crucial for effective brachytherapy.
  • Spectroscopic methods offer a way to determine these constants, but their approximations require validation.
  • Variations in initial photon spectra and treatment of scattered photons can impact accuracy.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the accuracy of the Chen and Nath spectroscopic method for dose rate constants of (125)I and (103)Pd seeds.
  • To assess the impact of line/dual-point source approximations and the exclusion of scattered photons.
  • To investigate the influence of different literature spectra on calculated dose rate constants.

Main Methods:

  • Monte Carlo simulations (EGSnrc BrachyDose) were used to calculate spectra for (125)I and (103)Pd seeds.
  • Simulations considered both full spectra (including scattered photons) and main peaks only, using various initial spectral data.
  • Dose rate constants were calculated using line/dual-point source approximations and full seed models, adhering to TG-43U1 definitions.

Main Results:

  • Initial spectrum choices (NCRP vs. TG-43U1 for (125)I, NNDC vs. TG-43U1 for (103)Pd) showed minor spectral differences but no impact on TG-43U1 parameters.
  • Measured values agreed well with calculations using NCRP and NNDC initial spectra (0.9% and 1.7% discrepancies).
  • Calculations using full spectra or main peaks only yielded no significant differences in dose rate constants within statistical uncertainties (≤0.2%).

Conclusions:

  • The Chen and Nath method's dose rate constant calculations using on-axis spectra and source approximations show excellent agreement (0.5% average) with their results.
  • However, dose rate constants from full seed models differ by up to 4.6% from those using source approximations.
  • Spectroscopic measurements are valuable for validating comprehensive Monte Carlo models of brachytherapy seeds.