Investigations of different kilovoltage x-ray energy for three-dimensional converging stereotactic radiotherapy system: Monte Carlo simulations with CT data

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 4635-4642

  Deloar, Hossain M ^a,b,g   Kunieda, Etsuo ^a   Kawase, Takatsugu ^a,b   Tsunoo, Takanori ^a,b   Saitoh, Hidetoshi ^a   Ozaki, Masahiro ^c   Saito, Kimiaki ^d   Takagi, Shunji ^e   Sato, Osamu ^e   Fujisaki, Tatsuya ^f   Myojoyama, Atsushi ^a   Sorell, Graham ^g  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOSHIBA MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION   (Japan)

^e JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^f MITSUBISHI RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^g CHRISTCHURCH HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; PHANTOMS; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS; X RAYS;

DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; INTEGRAL DOSE; MEDIUM ENERGY; MONTE CARLO CODES; STEREOTACTIC RADIOTHERAPY; THORAX PHANTOM; WATER PHANTOM; X-RAY ENERGIES;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSE RESPONSE; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIOTHERAPY; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 33845294427     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2361080     Document Type: Article

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