Effects of bone- and air-tissue inhomogeneities on the dose distributions of the Leksell Gamma Knife® calculated with PENELOPE

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 50, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 5665-5678

  Al Dweri, Feras M O ^a,b   Rojas, E Leticia ^a,c   Lallena, Antonio M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b APPLIED SCIENCE PRIVATE UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES NUCLEARES   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TISSUE;

AIR-TISSUE INHOMOGENEITIES;

DOSIMETRY;

AIR; ARTICLE; BONE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DEVICE; DOSIMETRY; FRONTAL SINUS; GAMMA KNIFE; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MAXILLARY SINUS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SKULL; TISSUE;

AIR; ALGORITHMS; BONE AND BONES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SOFTWARE; WATER;

EID: 28644448736     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/50/23/018     Document Type: Article

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