An anatomically realistic lung model for Monte Carlo-based dose calculations

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1013-1025

  Liang, Liang ^a   Larsen, Edward W ^a   Chetty, Indrin J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dosimetry; Inhomogeneity correction; Lung model; Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARTICLE BEAMS;

DOSE CALCULATION; INHOMOGENEITY CORRECTION; LUNG MODEL; MORPHOLOGICAL DATA; RANDOM STRUCTURES; RELATIVE LOCATION; SMALL FIELD SIZE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CANCER THERAPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOSE CALCULATION; LUNG MODEL; LUNG TUMOR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 33847685608     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2437284     Document Type: Article

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