A review of electron beam dose calculation algorithms

Australasian Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 111-130

  Keall, Paul J ^a,b,d   Hoban, Peter W ^c  

^a ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BIOPHYSICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; ELECTRON; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; REVIEW; SKIN TUMOR; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; BIOPHYSICS; ELECTRONS; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

ELECTRON BEAM DOSE CALCULATION ALGORITHMS; MACRO MONTE CARLO ALGORITHM; MULTI RAY MODEL; PENCIL BEAM REDEFINITION METHOD; PHASE SPACE EVOLUTION MODEL; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING SYSTEMS; SUPER MONTE CARLO METHOD; SUPERPOSITION CONVOLUTION METHOD; THEORETICAL PERTURBATIVE METHOD; THREE DIMENSIONAL PENCIL BEAM METHOD;

ALGORITHMS; CALCULATIONS; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PROBABILITY; RADIOTHERAPY;

ELECTRON BEAMS;

EID: 0030222475     PISSN: 01589938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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