Towards the elimination of Monte Carlo statistical fluctuation from dose volume histograms for radiotherapy treatment planning

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 131-157

  Sempau, Josep ^a,b   Bielajew, Alex F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; DOSE CALCULATION; HISTOGRAM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NOISE REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0033954739     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/45/1/310     Document Type: Article

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