The grid-dose-spreading algorithm for dose distribution calculation in heavy charged particle radiotherapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 602-607

  Kanematsu, Nobuyuki ^a   Yonai, Shunsuke ^a   Ishizaki, Azusa ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dose calculation; Heavy ion radiotherapy; Pencil beam algorithm; Proton radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ENERGY TRANSFER; HEAVY IONS; NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION; PROTON BEAM THERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY;

CARBON ION RADIOTHERAPY; CONVOLUTION INTEGRALS; DOSE CALCULATION; HEAVY CHARGED PARTICLES; HEAVY ION RADIOTHERAPY; PENCIL BEAM ALGORITHMS; PROSTATE TREATMENT; PROTON RADIOTHERAPY;

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS;

CARBON; PROTON;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DOSE CALCULATION; ION THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 38849196148     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2829878     Document Type: Article

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