Voxel model in BNCT treatment planning: Performance analysis and improvements

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 441-458

  González, Sara J ^a   Carando, Daniel G ^b   Santa Cruz, Gustavo A ^a   Zamenhof, Robert G ^c  

^a CENTRO ATÓMICO EZEIZA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE SAN ANDRÉS   (Argentina)

^c TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BENCHMARKING; BORON; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; NEUTRON IRRADIATION; NEUTRONS; PLANNING; RADIOTHERAPY;

BORON NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY (BNCT); COMPUTATIONAL MODELS; PATIENT'S ANATOMY; RADIATION FIELDS;

DOSIMETRY;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANATOMY; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IRRADIATION; MELANOMA; NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; REACTOR; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION; SKIN; SKIN TUMOR; STANDARD; SURFACE PROPERTY; THEORETICAL STUDY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BORON NEUTRON CAPTURE THERAPY; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUTRONS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE;

EID: 14544282450     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/3/004     Document Type: Article

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