Monte Carlo simulations of dose near a nonradioactive gold seed

Medical Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 4614-4621

  Chow, James C L ^a,b   Grigorov, Grigor N ^c  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c Grand River Regional Cancer Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gold seed; Monte Carlo simulation; Prostate treatment planning

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRY; GOLD; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHANTOMS; PHASE SPACE METHODS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS; RIVERS;

CENTRAL BEAM AXIS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSE GRADIENTS; GOLD SEEDS; LONGITUDINAL AXIS; NON-RADIOACTIVE GOLD SEEDS; PHASE-SPACE FILES; PROSTATE TREATMENT;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

GOLD; WATER;

ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; GEOMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER;

EID: 33845340151     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2388573     Document Type: Article

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