A Monte Carlo multiple source model applied to radiosurgery narrow photon beams

Medical Physics

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2192-2204

  Chaves, A ^a   Lopes, M C ^a   Alves, C C ^a   Oliveira, C ^b   Peralta, L ^c,d   Rodrigues, P ^d   Trindade, A ^d  

^a Instituto Portugues de Oncologia Francisco Gentil Centro Regional de Oncologia de Coimbra SA   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO E NUCLEAR   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^d LABORATÓRIO DE INSTRUMENTAÇÃO E FÍSICA EXPERIMENTAL DE PARTÍCULAS   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Monte Carlo; Radiosurgery; Source modeling

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; GRAPHIC METHODS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHANTOMS; PHASE SPACE METHODS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY;

CALCULATED VALUES; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS; POOR EFFICIENCIES; RADIOSURGERY; SAMPLING PROCEDURES; SOURCE MODELING;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DOSIMETRY; ENERGY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTIPLE SOURCE MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION FIELD; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 4043060982     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.1766419     Document Type: Article

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