A direct voxel tracking method for four-dimensional Monte Carlo dose calculations in deforming anatomy

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 434-445

  Heath, Emily ^a   Seuntjens, Jan ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Deformable dose calculations; Monte Carlo; Organ motion; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; INTERPOLATION; PHANTOMS;

DEFORMATION MAGNITUDE; DEFORMATION VECTORS; DOSE CALCULATION; IMAGE REGISTRATION ALGORITHM; MONTE CARLO DOSE CALCULATION; ORGAN MOTION; TREATMENT PLANNING; TRILINEAR INTERPOLATION;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ALGORITHM; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BREATHING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOSE CALCULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; REGISTRATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 31844437176     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2163252     Document Type: Article

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