Using a photon phase-space source for convolution/superposition dose calculations in radiation therapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 4111-4124

  Naqvi, Shahid A ^a   D'Souza, Warren D ^a   Earl, Matthew A ^a   Ye, Sung Joon ^b   Shin, Rompin ^c   Li, X Allen ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c TRI SERVICE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVOLUTION; DOSIMETRY; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY; RANDOM PROCESSES; X RAYS;

ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS; PHOTON PHASE-SPACE SOURCE; RADICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; X-RAY TARGETS;

PHASE SPACE METHODS;

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSIMETER; ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT SCATTERING; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION;

ALGORITHMS; BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHOTONS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS;

EID: 24044529492     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/17/014     Document Type: Article

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