Description and dosimetric verification of the PEREGRINE Monte Carlo dose calculation system for photon beams incident on a water phantom

Medical Physics

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1322-1337

  Hartmann Siantar, C L ^a   Walling, R S ^a   Daly, T P ^a   Faddegon, B ^b   Albright, N ^b   Bergstrom, Paul ^a   Bielajew, A F ^c   Chuang, C ^b   Garrett, D ^a   House, R K ^a   Knapp, D ^a   Wieczorek, D J ^b   Verhey, L J ^b  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose calculation; Monte Carlo; Radiation therapy; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON BEAM LITHOGRAPHY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY;

COMPARISONS WITH MEASUREMENTS; CONTAMINANT SOURCES; DOSE CALCULATION; ELECTRON BEAM ENERGY; MONTE CARLO DOSE CALCULATION; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; TREATMENT PLANNING; VARIANCE REDUCTIONS;

PHANTOMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COLLIMATOR; DOSIMETRY; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; SIMULATION; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034925140     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1381551     Document Type: Article

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