Dosimetric validation of the anisotropic analytical algorithm for photon dose calculation: Fundamental characterization in water

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1421-1438

  Fogliata, Antonella ^a   Nicolini, Giorgia ^a   Vanetti, Eugenio ^a,b   Clivio, Alessandro ^a,b   Cozzi, Luca ^a  

^a ONCOLOGY INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; CONVOLUTION; DATA REDUCTION; DOSIMETRY;

ANISOTROPIC ANALYTICAL ALGORITHM (AAA); ECLIPSE PLANNING SYSTEM; PHOTON DOSE CALCULATION; VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS;

PHOTONS;

WATER;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOSIMETRY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WATER;

EID: 33644694219     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/6/004     Document Type: Article

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