Brachytherapy, Intravascular

Abstract

The scope of this article is on the delivery devices for IVB and tools needed to assess the dosimetric properties of such brachytherapy devices. (Dosimetry is a subspecialty of radiation physics that deals with the measurement of the absorbed dose or dose rate resulting from the interaction of ionizing radiation with matter.) Such techniques are useful and can be applied in other future applications that require delivery of ionizing radiation to a target within a few millimeters from a radioactive source.