Progress toward a microradiation therapy small animal conformal irradiator

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 3834-3845

  Stojadinovic, Strahinja ^a   Low, Daniel A ^a   Vicic, Milos ^a   Mutic, Sasa ^a   Deasy, Joseph O ^a   Hope, Andrew J ^a   Parikh, Parag J ^a   Grigsby, Perry W ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

3D dose distribution; Beam model; MicroRT; Monte Carlo simulations; Small animal radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; RADIOTHERAPY;

BEAM MODEL; BEAMNRC MONTE CARLO CODE; CONFORMAL RADIATION THERAPY; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; MICRORT; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SMALL ANIMAL; SYSTEM DESIGN PROCESS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

IRIDIUM 192;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; DOSE CALCULATION; MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD; RADIOTHERAPY; SIMULATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33749419162     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2349693     Document Type: Article

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