Isolating the impact of tissue heterogeneities in high dose rate brachytherapy treatment of the breast
Background and purpose: Clinical brachytherapy treatment planning is performed assuming the patient Freewheels is composed entirely of water and infinite in size.In this work, the effects of this assumption on calculated dose were investigated by comparing dose to water in water (Dw,w) in an unbound phantom mimicking TG-43 conditions, and dose to m