Comprehensive evaluation of a commercial macro Monte Carlo electron dose calculation implementation using a standard verification data set

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1540-1551

  Popple, Richard A ^a   Weinberg, Rebecca ^b   Antolak, John A ^c   Ye, Sung Joon ^a   Pareek, Prem N ^a   Duan, Jun ^a   Shen, Sui ^a   Brezovich, Ivan A ^a  

^a The University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose calculation; Electron; Macro Monte Carlo; Monte Carlo; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRONS; MACROS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHANTOMS;

COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION; DOSE CALCULATION; MEASUREMENT CONFIGURATION; MONTE CARLO ALGORITHMS; STATISTICAL PRECISION; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D);

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; CALCULATION; DOSE CALCULATION; ELECTRON BEAM; EVALUATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; STANDARD; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 33744804592     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2198328     Document Type: Article

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