Generation of dose-volume histograms using Monte Carlo simulations on a multicellular model in radionuclide therapy

Cancer Biotherapy and Radiopharmaceuticals

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 320-324

  Spaic, Rajko ^a   Ilic, Radovan ^b   Dragovic, Milos ^a   Petrovic, Bratislav ^c  

^a Center for Nuclear Medicine   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^c Faculty of Organizational Sciences   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Beta emitters; Dose volume histograms; Multicellular; Radionuclide therapy; Voxel geometry

Indexed keywords

COPPER 67; IODINE 131; RHENIUM 188; SAMARIUM 153; YTTRIUM 90;

CALCULATION; CELL DENSITY; CELL LABELING; CONFERENCE PAPER; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSE VOLUME HISTOGRAM; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MORPHOMETRICS; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOISOTOPE THERAPY; SIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 22344455754     PISSN: 10849785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cbr.2005.20.320     Document Type: Conference Paper

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