Application of an inverse kernel concept to Monte Carlo based IMRT

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 4749-4757

  Bogner, Ludwig ^a   Hartmann, Matthias ^b   Rickhey, Mark ^a   Moravek, Zdenek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

IMRT; Inverse treatment planning; Monte Carlo; Optimization

Indexed keywords

BINARY TREES; GRAPHIC METHODS; ITERATIVE METHODS; NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION; OPTIMIZATION; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

DIFFERENCE HISTOGRAMS; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; IMRT; INVERSE TREATMENT; ITERATIVE OPTIMIZATION; PENCIL BEAM ALGORITHMS; SEGMENTATION PROCEDURE; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 33845319793     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2349697     Document Type: Article

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