Determination of the initial beam parameters in Monte Carlo linac simulation

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 850-858

  Aljarrah, Khaled ^a   Sharp, Greg C ^b   Neicu, Toni ^b   Jiang, Steve B ^b  

^a University of Massachusetts Lowell   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Commissioning; Linac simulation; Monte Carlo; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

COST FUNCTIONS; ELECTRON BEAMS; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS; PHASE SPACE METHODS;

COMMISSIONING; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; LINAC SIMULATION; RADIAL INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL UNCERTAINTY; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS; TRIAL-AND-ERROR PROCESS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON BEAM; ENERGY; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION FIELD; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 33645498738     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2168433     Document Type: Article

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