Stochastic versus deterministic kernel-based superposition approaches for dose calculation of intensity-modulated arcs

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 4733-4746

  Tang, Grace ^a,b   Earl, Matthew A ^a   Luan, Shuang ^c   Wang, Chao ^d   Cao, Daliang ^e   Yu, Cedric X ^a   Naqvi, Shahid A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MSC01 1070   (United States)

^d University of Notre Dame   (United States)

^e Swedish Cancer Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERPOLATION; PHYSICAL THERAPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

3D CONFORMAL; ANGULAR INTERVALS; BEAM ANGLES; COMPUTATION TIME; COMPUTATIONAL TIMES; CPU TIME; DOSE CALCULATIONS; INTENSITY-MODULATED ARC THERAPY; MONTE CARLO; RANDOM SAMPLING; SUPERPOSITION TECHNIQUE;

CAVITY RESONATORS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOSE CALCULATION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; KERNEL METHOD; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTERS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTONS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SOFTWARE; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 51849153846     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/17/018     Document Type: Article

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