A 3D pencil-beam-based superposition algorithm for photon dose calculation in heterogeneous media

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 3821-3839

  Tillikainen, L ^a   Helminen, H ^a,c   Torsti, T ^a   Siljamaki S ^a   Alakuijala, J ^a,c   Pyyry, J ^a   Ulmer, W ^b  

^a Varian Medical Systems Finland   (Finland)

^b VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (Switzerland)

^c GOOGLE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ACCURATE MODELING; CENTRAL AXIS; CLINICAL SETTINGS; DOSE CALCULATIONS; ELECTRON DENSITIES; EXPONENTIAL FUNCTIONS; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; HETEROGENEOUS TISSUES; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION (MCS); PENCIL BEAM (PB); SCATTER FUNCTIONS; SOURCE MODELING; THREE DIMENSIONAL (3D); TISSUE INTERFACE; TOTAL ENERGIES;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

WATER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BONE; DOSE CALCULATION; ELECTRON; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GEOMETRY; LUNG; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; BONE AND BONES; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WATER;

EID: 47649106110     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/14/008     Document Type: Article

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