Treatment planning for a small animal using Monte Carlo simulation

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 4810-4817

  Chow, James C L ^a,b,c,d   Leung, Michael K K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^d RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dose calculation; Monte Carlo simulation; Small animal model; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MAMMALS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS;

CONFORMAL TREATMENT; DOSE CALCULATION; MONTE CARLO DOSE CALCULATION; RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT; SMALL ANIMAL MODEL; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS; USER-FRIENDLY PLATFORMS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOSE CALCULATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOUSE STRAIN; PHOTON; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 36649001789     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2805254     Document Type: Article

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