MCPI©: A sub-minute Monte Carlo dose calculation engine for prostate implants

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 3688-3698

  Chibani, Omar ^a   Williamson, Jeffrey F ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D MODELING; BIOMINERALIZATION; BONE; DOSIMETRY; MESH GENERATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ONCOLOGY; PHASE SPACE METHODS; RADIOTHERAPY; UROLOGY;

ARBITRARY POSITIONS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; MONTE CARLO DOSE CALCULATION; PROSTATE BRACHYTHERAPY; STATISTICAL UNCERTAINTY; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D); TISSUE COMPOSITION; TISSUE HETEROGENEITY;

TISSUE;

IODINE 125; PALLADIUM 103; RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL; PALLADIUM; RADIOACTIVE IODINE; RADIOISOTOPE;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CALCIFICATION; CASE REPORT; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; IMPLANT; MALE; MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SIMULATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE QUALITY; PATHOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR; QUALITY CONTROL; STATISTICS;

BENCHMARKING; BIOPHYSICS; BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PALLADIUM; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 33644999267     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2126822     Document Type: Article

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