Simplified Monte Carlo dose calculation for therapeutic proton beams

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 2: Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 3 A, 2002, Pages

  Kohno, Ryosuke ^a,b   Sakae, Takeji ^a   Takada, Yoshihisa ^a   Matsumoto, Keiji ^a   Matsuda, Hiroyuki ^a   Nohtomi, Akihiro ^a   Terunuma, Toshiyuki ^a   Tsunashima, Yoshikazu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Edge scattering; Heterogeneity; Pencil beam algorithm; Proton dose distribution; Proton therapy; Proton treatment planning; Simplified Monte Carlo dose calculation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; LIGHT SCATTERING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; WATER;

PROTON THERAPY; THERAPEUTIC BEAMS;

PROTON BEAMS;

EID: 0036509096     PISSN: 00214922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1143/jjap.41.l294     Document Type: Article

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