Monte Carlo simulations for EndoBronchial Photodynamic Therapy: The influence of variations in optical and geometrical properties and of realistic and eccentric light sources

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 193-206

  Murrer, Lars H ^a   Marijnissen, Hans P ^a   Star, Willem M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bronchus; Light dosimetry

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BRONCHUS MUCOSA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DOSIMETRY; ILLUMINATION; PHOTODYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

ABSORPTION; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BRONCHI; DIFFUSION; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; OPTICS; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; RADIATION DOSAGE; SWINE; TRACHEA;

EID: 0031900479     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9101(1998)22:4<193::AID-LSM3>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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