Direct aperture optimization for IMRT using Monte Carlo generated beamlets

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 3666-3679

  Bergman, Alanah M ^a   Bush, Karl ^b   Milette, Marie Pierre ^a   Popescu, I Antoniu ^c   Otto, Karl ^c   Duzenli, Cheryl ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beamlet dose distribution; Direct aperture optimization; IMRT optimization; Monte Carlo; Tissue inhomogeneity

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; EFFICIENCY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; PHASE SPACE METHODS; TISSUE;

DIRECT APERTURE OPTIMIZATIONS; DISTRIBUTION MATRICES; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; INHOMOGENEOUS MATERIALS; MONTE CARLO CALCULATION; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; TISSUE INHOMOGENEITY; TREATMENT EFFICIENCY;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; DOSIMETRY; ERROR; GEOMETRY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SIMULATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 33749419163     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2336509     Document Type: Article

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