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Following the general trends of modern dosimetry the quantity absorbed dose in water is the one mostly needed in clinical practice. A few attempts have been reported to establish this quantity for HDR brachytherapy and potential good results of two novel techniques have been reported, firstly by Sarfehnia et al (2007) using a water based calorimeter and secondly by Austerlitz et al (2008) both with uncertainties still high, 5% and 8% respectively and deAlmeida et al (2008) with uncertainties smaller than 3% both using ferrous sulphate-Fricke dosimeter.
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de Almeida, C.E. et al. (2009). Standard Absorbed Dose to Water for HDR Brachytherapy Sources with Fricke Dosimetry. In: Dössel, O., Schlegel, W.C. (eds) World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, September 7 - 12, 2009, Munich, Germany. IFMBE Proceedings, vol 25/1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03474-9_296
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