Incorporation of the aperture thickness in proton pencil-beam dose calculations

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 5441-5453

  Slopsema, Roelf L ^a,b   Kooy, Hanne M ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; PATIENT TREATMENT; RADIOTHERAPY;

ISODOSE CONTOUR LINES; LATERAL PENUMBRA; PENCIL-BEAM DOSE MODELS; PROTON PENCIL-BEAM DOSE CALCULATIONS;

DOSIMETRY;

ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON RADIATION; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTONS; PROTONS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 33751190291     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/21/004     Document Type: Article

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