Biological dose calculation with Monte Carlo physics simulation for heavy-ion radiotherapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 51, Issue 24, 2006, Pages

  Kase, Yuki ^a,b   Kanematsu, Nobuyuki ^a,c   Kanai, Tatsuaki ^a,c   Matsufuji, Naruhiro ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; ION BEAMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PATIENT TREATMENT; RADIATION EFFECTS; TUMORS; X RAYS;

BIOLOGICAL DOSE DISTRIBUTION; HEAVYION RADIOTHERAPY; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS (RBE); SALIVARY GLANDS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; DOSIMETRY; HEAVY ION RADIATION; ION THERAPY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RELATIVE BIOLOGIC EFFECTIVENESS; SALIVARY GLAND; SIMULATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR CELL;

CARBON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAVY IONS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE;

EID: 33846882842     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/51/24/N03     Document Type: Article

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