Assessment of the accuracy of an MCNPX-based Monte Carlo simulation model for predicting three-dimensional absorbed dose distributions

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 53, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 4455-4470

  Titt, U ^a   Sahoo, N ^a   Ding, X ^a   Zheng, Y ^a   Newhauser, W D ^a   Zhu, X R ^a   Polf, J C ^a   Gillin, M T ^a   Mohan, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON OPTICS; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PROTON BEAMS; PROTONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ABSORBED DOSE; BEAM PARAMETERS; BEAM STEERING; BRAGG PEAKS; COMMISSIONING PHASE; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSE GRADIENTS; DOUBLE SCATTERING; DOUBLE-SCATTERING SYSTEM; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; HOUSTON; LARGE SIZES; MEASURED DATA; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO MODELLING; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MONTE-CARLO SIMULATIONS; PROTON ENERGIES; PROTON-THERAPY; RESEARCH STUDIES; SIMULATED DATA SETS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; ENERGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON RADIATION; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION PHYSICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE VALIDATION;

EID: 52049100354     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/53/16/016     Document Type: Article

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