An efficient framework for photon Monte Carlo treatment planning

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 19, 2007, Pages

  Fix, Michael K ^a   Manser, Peter ^a   Frei, Daniel ^a   Volken, Werner ^a   Mini, Roberto ^a   Born, Ernst J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PATIENT TREATMENT; PHOTONS;

MC TRANSPORT METHODS; MONTE CARLO TREATMENT PLANNING (MCTP); TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEM (TPS); USER INTERACTIONS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DATA BASE; DOSIMETRY; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; BODY BURDEN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTONS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 34748903573     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/19/N01     Document Type: Article

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