Experimental verification and clinical implementation of a commercial Monte Carlo electron beam dose calculation algorithm

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1028-1038

  Fragoso, Margarida ^a   Pillai, Sushakumari ^a   Solberg, Timothy D ^b   Chetty, Indrin J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron beam; Monte Carlo; Treatment planning algorithms

Indexed keywords

APPLICATORS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRONS; IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PATIENT MONITORING;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHANTOMS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; IRREGULAR SURFACE; MONITOR UNIT CALCULATIONS; PATIENT'S ANATOMY; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSE CALCULATION; ELECTRON; ELECTRON BEAM; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARTICLE RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SIMULATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 40049095149     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2839098     Document Type: Article

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