Monte Carlo dose calculations for a 6-MV photon beam in a thorax phantom

Radiation Medicine - Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 269-276

  Farajollahi, Alireza ^a   Mesbahi, Asghar ^a  

^a TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

EPL method; Lung dose calculations; MCNP4C code; Monte Carlo method; Thorax phantom

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREMS RADIATION; CALIBRATION; DOSE CALCULATION; IONIZATION; IRRADIATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LUNG; MONTE CARLO METHOD; THORAX; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTON; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX TUMOR;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTONS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORACIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33749366251     PISSN: 02882043     EISSN: 18625274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11604-005-1493-5     Document Type: Article

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