Assessment of organ-specific neutron equivalent doses in proton therapy using computational whole-body age-dependent voxel phantoms

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 693-717

  Zacharatou Jarlskog, Christina ^a,d   Lee, Choonik ^b,e   Bolch, Wesley E ^b   Xu, X George ^c   Paganetti, Harald ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

^e M D ANDERSON CANCER CENTER ORLANDO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRUG DELIVERY; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; NEUROLOGY; NEUTRON SCATTERING; RADIOTHERAPY;

AGE-DEPENDENT REPRESENTATIONS; BRAIN LESIONS; GEOMETRICAL INFORMATION;

NUCLEAR MEDICINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUTRON; NEUTRON DOSIMETRY; PEDIATRICS; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIMULATION;

AGING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEUTRONS; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; SCATTERING, RADIATION; WHOLE-BODY COUNTING;

EID: 41849131460     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/3/012     Document Type: Article

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