MCDE: A new Monte Carlo dose engine for IMRT

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 14, 2004, Pages

  Reynaert, N ^a   De Smedt, B ^a   Coghe, M ^b   Paelinck, L ^b   Van Duyse, B ^b   De Gersem, W ^b   De Wagter, C ^b   De Neve, W ^b   Thierens, H ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOSE ENGINE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; LINEAR ACCELERATOR;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTRON BEAMS; GEOMETRY; MEDICAL IMAGING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PATIENT TREATMENT; STATISTICS;

DRUG DOSAGE;

ACCURACY; ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ETHMOID SINUS; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ALGORITHMS; BONE NEOPLASMS; ETHMOID SINUS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 4344664695     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/14/N04     Document Type: Article

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