Investigation of geometrical and scoring grid resolution for Monte Carlo dose calculations for IMRT

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 4005-4019

  De Smedt, B ^a   Vanderstraeten, B ^a,b   Reynaert, N ^a   De Neve, W ^b   Thierens, H ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); OPTIMIZATION; PATIENT TREATMENT; TUMORS;

GEOMETRICAL GRID RESOLUTION; GEOMETRICAL GRIDS; OPTICAL NERVES; SCORING GRID RESOLUTION;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LUNG CARCINOMA; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 24044552348     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/17/006     Document Type: Article

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