Deterministic model for dose calculation in photon radiotherapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 675-693

  Hensel, Hartmut ^a   Iza Teran, Rodrigo ^b   Siedow, Norbert ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR INDUSTRIAL MATHEMATICS ITWM   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR ALGORITHMS AND SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SCAI   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DOSIMETERS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; EQUATIONS OF STATE; GEOMETRY; IRRADIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PHOTONS;

DOSE CALCULATION; HETEROGENOUS MEDIUM; PHOTON RADIOTHERAPY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; SIMULATION;

ELECTRONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTONS; PHYSICS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 31344434504     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/3/013     Document Type: Article

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