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Low dose rate (LDR) afterloading with a remote-controlled afterloading system is replacing the well-tried brachytherapy with radium of the past decades. Using an equivalent geometrical setup and an equivalent radioactive source, results equally as good as in radium therapy can be achieved. It has been possible with the afterloading system to introduce sources of a higher dose rate (HDR), that is, short-term irradiation in terms of minutes.
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von Fournier, D., Anton, H.W., Junkermann, H., Wolf, G. (1991). Low and High Dose Rate Afterloading in Gynecological Malignancies. In: Sauer, R. (eds) Interventional Radiation Therapy. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84163-7_43
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