Study of the effect of usual heterogeneities in brachytherapy using Monte Carlo simulation

The majority of current planning in brachytherapy systems don't count the composition of materials they form applicators, or the characteristics of the main interfaces present in the treatments. The objective of this study It is to compare the dosimetry distributions obtained by Monte Carlo simulations in geometric mannequins that they represent general features of the treatments that we find in our clinical practice, with results calculated according to the TG-43 formalism based on the existing consensus data for Ir-192 mHDR-v2 source. (Author)