Comprehensive fluence model for absolute portal dose image prediction

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1389-1398

  Chytyk, K ^a,b   Mccurdy, B M C ^a,b  

^a CANCERCARE MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

dosimetric verification; fluence modeling; Portal dosimetry

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DOSIMETRY; FORECASTING; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; RADIOTHERAPY; SPECTROSCOPY;

AMORPHOUS SILICON (A-SI); ELECTRONIC PORTAL IMAGING DEVICES; FLUENCES; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; PORTAL DOSIMETRIES; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS; TREATMENT VERIFICATION;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSIMETRY; ENERGY ABSORPTION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHARYNX DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE DISEASE; RADIATION DOSE; SPECTROSCOPY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRONICS, MEDICAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SILICON;

EID: 63849140239     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3083583     Document Type: Article

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