An energy transfer method for 4D Monte Carlo dose calculation

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 4096-4105

  Siebers, Jeffrey V ^a   Zhong, Hualiang ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose mapping; Four dimensional therapy; Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; MAPPING; PARTICLE SEPARATORS; PHANTOMS;

ADDITION ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; DEFORMABLE IMAGE REGISTRATION; DOSE MAPPING; FOUR DIMENSIONAL THERAPY; INTERPOLATION METHOD; MONTE CARLO DOSE CALCULATION; RECTILINEAR COORDINATES;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; DIGITAL IMAGING; DOSIMETRY; ENERGY TRANSFER; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 50449084524     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2968215     Document Type: Article

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