Denoising of Monte Carlo dose calculations: Smoothing capabilities versus introduction of systematic bias

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1678-1687

  De Smedt, B ^a   Fippel, M ^b   Reynaert, N ^a   Thierens, H ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b BRAINLAB AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; PARTICLE BEAMS; PATIENT TREATMENT; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS;

BILATERAL FILTERING; DE-NOISING ALGORITHM; DE-NOISING TECHNIQUES; HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; MONTE CARLO DOSE CALCULATION; NEW EVALUATION METHODS; SAVITZKY-GOLAY FILTER; TREATMENT PLANNING;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON BEAM; EVALUATION; FILTER; FILTRATION; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NOISE REDUCTION; PHANTOM; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SYSTEMATIC BIAS; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 33744810913     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2198188     Document Type: Article

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