A Monte Carlo approach to patient-specific dosimetry

Medical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1523-1529

  Furhang, Eli E ^a   Chui, Chen Shou ^a   Sgouros, George ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo; patient specific dosimetry; radioimmunotherapy

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; RADIOISOTOPES;

ABSORBED DOSE DISTRIBUTION; DOSE RESPONSE RELATIONSHIPS; MONTE CARLO APPROACH; PARTICLE TRANSPORT; PATIENT GEOMETRIES; PATIENT SPECIFIC; RADIOIMMUNOTHERAPY; RADIONUCLIDE ACTIVITY;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION PHYSICS; RADIOIMMUNOTHERAPY;

EID: 0029788687     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.597882     Document Type: Article

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