Implementing dosimetry in GATE: Dose-point kernel validation with GEANT4 4.8.1

Cancer Biotherapy and Radiopharmaceuticals

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 125-129

  Ferrer, Ludovic ^a,b,d   Chouin, Nicolas ^a,c   Bitar, Abdalkader ^a,c   Lisbona, Albert ^a,b   Bardiès, Manuel ^a,c  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b CENTRE RENÉ GAUDUCHEAU   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^d Medical Physics Department   (France)

Author keywords

Dosimetry; Monte Carlo simulation; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA BASE; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON; GEANT4 BASED APPLICATION FOR EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; GEOMETRY AND TRACKING 4; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KERNEL METHOD; KOLMOGOROV SMIRNOV TEST; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; THICKNESS; VALIDATION STUDY;

MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 34247874664     PISSN: 10849785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cbr.2007.304     Document Type: Conference Paper

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