Magnetic confinement of electron and photon radiotherapy dose: A Monte Carlo simulation with a nonuniform longitudinal magnetic field

Medical Physics

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 3810-3818

  Chen, Yu ^a   Bielajew, Alex F ^a   Litzenberg, Dale W ^a   Moran, Jean M ^a   Becchetti, Frederick D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose confinement; Electron therapy; Magnetic fields; Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON BEAMS; HEAVY IONS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS; PROTON BEAM THERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY;

EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELD; HIGH MAGNETIC FIELDS; INCIDENT ELECTRON BEAMS; LONGITUDINAL DIRECTION; LONGITUDINAL MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC CONFINEMENT; NONUNIFORM MAGNETIC FIELDS; SECONDARY ELECTRONS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRON BEAM; ELECTRON THERAPY; ENERGY; HEAVY ION RADIATION; MAGNET; MAGNETIC FIELD; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; ALGORITHM; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTRON; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAGNETISM; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; NEOPLASM; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOBIOLOGY; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTRONS; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIOBIOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 33645004926     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2011091     Document Type: Article

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