Comparison of dose calculation algorithms for treatment planning in external photon beam therapy for clinical situations

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 5785-5807

  Knöös, Tommy ^a   Wieslander, Elinore ^a   Cozzi, Luca ^b   Brink, Carsten ^c   Fogliata, Antonella ^b   Albers, Dirk ^d   Nyström, Håkan ^e   Lassen, Søren ^e  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b ONCOLOGY INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^c ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^e Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; IRRADIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTONS; X RAYS;

ANATOMICAL STRUCTURES; DOSE CALCULATION; PHOTON BEAM THERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS (TPS);

ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL IMAGING AND COMMUNICATIONS IN MEDICINE; DOSE CALCULATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PELVIS; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; PHOTONS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE VALIDATION;

EID: 33846882623     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/22/005     Document Type: Article

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