First macro Monte Carlo based commercial dose calculation module for electron beam treatment planning - New issues for clinical consideration

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2781-2799

  Ding, George X ^a   Duggan, Dennis M ^a   Coffey, Charles W ^a   Shokrani, Parvaneh ^b,c   Cygler, Joanna E ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b OTTAWA REGIONAL CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

^c ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BONE; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BEAM ENERGIES; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; ELECTRON BEAM TREATMENT; STATISTICAL VARIATIONS;

ELECTRON BEAMS;

WATER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DENSITY; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON BEAM; EXPERIENCE; FILM; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MONITOR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION ENERGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURFACE PROPERTY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; BONE AND BONES; ELECTRONS; HUMANS; LUNG; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; TECHNOLOGY, RADIOLOGIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33744818167     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/11/007     Document Type: Article

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