A Monte Carlo tutorial and the application for radiotherapy treatment planning

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 43-50

  DeMarco, J J ^a   Chetty, I J ^b   Solberg, T D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Dosimetry treatment planning; Linear accelerator; Monte Carlo; Virtual source

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DENSITY; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; HISTOGRAM; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RECTUM; TREATMENT PLANNING;

HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0036226527     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0958-3947(02)00087-0     Document Type: Article

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