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Routine verification of strength of 137Cs brachytherapy sources using a NaI detector
1Department of Radiation Medicine, University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington 40536-0084.
Medical Physics
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
An inexpensive and easy method of calibration of brachytherapy 137Cs tubes is described. Cesium brachytherapy sources are calibrated relative to an NIST-calibrated source. The detection system is a NaI detector and single channel analyzer with the window set on the photo peak.