Monte Carlo evaluation of a treatment planning system for helical tomotherapy in an anthropomorphic heterogeneous phantom and for clinical treatment plans

Medical Physics

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 5366-5374

  Zhao, Ying Li ^a,b   Mackenzie, M ^a,b   Kirkby, C ^a   Fallone, B G ^a,b  

^a CROSS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Convolutionsuperposition; EDR2; Heterogeneous; Monte Carlo; Tomotherapy; TPS verification

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHANTOMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLINICAL TREATMENT PLANS; CONVOLUTIONSUPERPOSITION; EDR2; HETEROGENEOUS; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; SUPERPOSITION ALGORITHMS; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; DOSE CALCULATION; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 56749181307     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3002316     Document Type: Article

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