Journal:
:iranian journal of medical physics
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azizollah rahimi msc student of medical physics, tarbiat modares university, tehran, iran.
bijan hashemi associate professor, medical physics dept., tarbiat modares university, tehran, iran.
mohammad hassan zahmatkesh assistant professor, novin medical radiation institute, tehran, iran.
ramin jaberi physicist, cancer institute, department of radiotherapy and oncology, imam khomeini hospital, tehran, iran.
shahab sheibani assistant professor, nuclear sciences research center, nuclear science and technology research center, tehran, iran.
introduction: polymer gels are modern dosimeters providing three dimensional dose distributions. these dosimeters can be used in brachytherapy in which the tumor dimension is relatively small and the dose gradient is high. in this study, the ability of the magica polymer gel was investigated for assessing the absolute dose values as well as the dose distribution of low dose rate (ldr) ir-192 wi...