The Monte Carlo SRNA-VOX code for 3D proton dose distribution in voxelized geometry using CT data

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1011-1017

  Ilić, Radovan D ^a   Spasić Jokić, Vesna ^a   Belicev, Petar ^a   Dragović, Miloš ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b Novo Nordisk Pharma doo   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATA REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY;

ELEMENTAL COMPOSITION; MULTIPLE SCATTERING; PROTON DOSE; PROTON TRANSPORT;

DOSIMETRY;

BREAST TUMOR; CODING; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA ANALYSIS; DOSIMETRY; EYE TUMOR; GEOMETRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATERIALS TESTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROTON TRANSPORT; SIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 16444382388     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/5/023     Document Type: Conference Paper

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