American Association of Physicists in Medicine
Intravascular brachytherapy physics: report of the AAPM Radiation Therapy Committee Task Group no. 60. American Association of Physicists in Medicine
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.
Source and rights
Published by Medical physics, 1999. The guideline itself is at the source linked here.
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At a glance
- Organisation
- American Association of Physicists in Medicine
- Published
- 1999
- Applies to
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Scope
- National
- Journal
- Medical physics
- PubMed
- 10076966
- Added to Prognia
- 25 July 2026
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