Accelerated Monte Carlo based dose calculations for brachytherapy planning using correlated sampling

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 351-376

  Hedtjärn, Håkan ^a   Carlsson, Gudrun Alm ^a   Williamson, Jeffrey F ^b  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; DOSIMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SAMPLING;

DOSE CALCULATIONS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

IODINE 125;

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DOSIMETRY; GEOMETRY; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; TREATMENT PLANNING; VARIANCE;

ALGORITHMS; BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTONS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037034119     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/47/3/301     Document Type: Article

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