Fast Model for Evaluation of the Thyroid Dosimetry During Chest Tumor Radiotherapy

• Main Authors: Yiling Wang (Author), Min Zheng (Author), Ling He (Author), Jinhui Xu (Author), Gang Yin (Author), Jie Zhou (Author), Yue Zhao (Author), Ming Jiang (Author), Jie Wang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SAGE Publishing, 2019-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Due to the reported high incidence of thyroid cancer induced by radiotherapy, dose assessment is significant to prevent thyroid late effects. Thyroid dosimetry can be evaluated either by entrance skin dose (ESD) measured with thermoluminescent dosimeter (TLD) arrays or by absorbed dose (AD) computed...