Differential-Pencil-Beam Dose Calculations for Charged Particles

Medical Physics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1992, Pages 137-149

  Petti, Paula L ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

charged particles; dose calculation models; Monte Carlo; multiple scattering; techniques

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOSIMETRY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON RADIATION; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIMULATION; X RAY DOSE DISTRIBUTION;

ALGORITHMS; HUMAN; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0026515872     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.596887     Document Type: Article

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