Brachytherapy scatter dose calculation in heterogeneous media: II. Empirical formulation for the multiple-scatter contribution

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 5637-5654

  Wang, Ruqing ^a   Sloboda, Ron S ^a  

^a CROSS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BENCHMARKING; GEOMETRY; MICROOPTICS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MULTIPLE SCATTERING; PHOTONIC BAND GAP; PHOTONS;

BRACHYTHERAPY; EMPIRICAL FORMULATION; HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEM; PERTURBATIONS; SCATTER DOSE CALCULATION;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CALCULATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING;

ANISOTROPY; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 35848966136     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/52/18/011     Document Type: Article

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