Recommendations for Brachytherapy Dosimetry : Report of a Joint BIR/IPSM Working Party

This report aims to encourage those working in the field of brachytherapy to adopt, where possible, common definitions, common conventions and common approaches to measurements and dose calculations.

Areas covered include: the historical perspective; advantages and disadvantages of the system approach; source specification; source specification; reference standards and traceability; quantities and units for dose prescription and dose calculations; dose rate calculations from reference air kerma rate; correction for attenuation and scattering in water; recommendations for localisation procedures; dose meacurement in water and in vivo; and recommendations for dose recording.