Comparison of analytic source models for head scatter factor calculation and planar dose calculation for IMRT

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2051-2067

  Yan, Guanghua ^a   Liu, Chihray ^a   Lu, Bo ^a   Palta, Jatinder R ^a   Li, Jonathan G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BACKSCATTERING; DOSIMETRY; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY (IMRT); PENCIL-BEAM KERNEL;

RADIOTHERAPY;

AIR FLUENCE DISTRIBUTION; ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC SOURCE MODEL; ARTICLE; HEAD SCATTER FACTOR CALCULATION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PLANAR DOSE CALCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION SCATTERING; SINGLE SOURCE MODEL; THREE SOURCE MODEL; TWO SOURCE MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEAD; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 42649144430     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/8/004     Document Type: Article

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