Reducing stray radiation dose to patients receiving passively scattered proton radiotherapy for prostate cancer

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2131-2147

  Taddei, Phillip J ^a   Fontenot, Jonas D ^a   Zheng, Yuanshui ^a   Mirkovic, Dragan ^a   Lee, Andrew K ^a   Titt, Uwe ^a   Newhauser, Wayne D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRUG DOSAGE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROTON BEAMS; RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIOTHERAPY;

PROSTATE CANCER; PROTON RADIOTHERAPY; STRAY RADIATION DOSE;

ONCOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUTRONS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PROTONS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 42949112555     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/8/009     Document Type: Article

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