Clinical implementation of full Monte Carlo dose calculation in proton beam therapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 4825-4853

  Paganetti, Harald ^a   Jiang, Hongyu ^a,b   Parodi, Katia ^a,c   Slopsema, Roelf ^a,d   Engelsman, Martijn ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (STANDARDS); CODES (SYMBOLS); IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); IONIZATION; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MODULATION; PARTICLE BEAMS; PATIENT TREATMENT; PROCESS ENGINEERING; PROTONS; STANDARDS; SULFATE MINERALS;

BEAM METHODS; BEAM MODULATION; BEAM PATHS; BEAM SCANNING; BONY ANATOMY; CLINICAL ENVIRONMENTS; CLINICAL USES; CT DATA; DATA EXCHANGE; DOSE CALCULATIONS; END-OF-RANGE; HEAD AND NECK; MEDICAL SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO CODES; MONTE CARLO DOSE CALCULATION; PATIENT ANATOMY; PHANTOM MEASUREMENTS; PLANNING PROCESS; PLANNING SYSTEMS; PROTON BEAM THERAPY; PROTON DOSE; TIME-DEPENDENT SIMULATIONS; TRACKING ALGORITHMS; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSE CALCULATION; HUMAN; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON RADIATION; PROTON THERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; ASTROCYTOMA; CHORDOMA; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROTONS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPHENOID SINUS; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS;

EID: 51849122521     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/17/023     Document Type: Article

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