Conversion of CT numbers into tissue parameters for Monte Carlo dose calculations: A multi-centre study

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 539-562

  Vanderstraeten, Barbara ^a   Chin, Pik Wai ^b   Fix, Michael ^c   Leal, Antonio ^d   Mora, Grisel ^e   Reynaert, Nick ^a   Seco, Joao ^f   Soukup, Martin ^g   Spezi, Emiliano ^h   De Neve, Wilfried ⁱ   Thierens, Hubert ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b VELINDRE CANCER CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^f MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

ⁱ GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PATIENT TREATMENT;

DOSIMETRICALLY EQUIVALENT TISSUE SUBSETS; MASS DENSITY; MONTE CARLO TREATMENT PLANNING (MCTP); PATIENT DOSE CALCULATIONS;

DRUG DOSAGE;

WATER;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; HISTOGRAM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; STOICHIOMETRY; BIOPHYSICS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEOPLASM; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICS;

BIOPHYSICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34047250299     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/3/001     Document Type: Article

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