SBRT of lung tumours: Monte Carlo simulation with PENELOPE of dose distributions including respiratory motion and comparison with different treatment planning systems

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 4265-4281

  Panettieri, Vanessa ^a,b   Wennberg, Berit ^b   Gagliardi, Giovanna ^b   Duch, Maria Amor ^a   Ginjaume, Mercè ^a   Lax, Ingmar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSIMETRY; ONCOLOGY; TUMORS;

DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS (DVH); PHASE-SPACE FILES (PSF); STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY (SBRT);

PATIENT TREATMENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREATHING MECHANICS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE CALCULATION; GEOMETRY; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; LUNG TUMOR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOTHERAPY; SIMULATION; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY; THORAX WALL; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

ALGORITHMS; BODY BURDEN; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOVEMENT; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE;

EID: 34547331930     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/14/016     Document Type: Article

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