A radionuclide dosimetry toolkit based on material-specific Monte Carlo dose kernels

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 504-512

  Loudos, George ^a   Tsougos, Ioannis ^c   Boukis, Spyros ^b   Karakatsanis, Nikolas ^b   Georgoulias, Panagiotis ^c   Theodorou, Kiki ^c   Nikita, Konstantina ^b   Kappas, Constantin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Dose kernel; Dosimetry; Geant4 Application for Tomographic Emission; Monte Carlo simulations; Radionuclide therapy; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

SAMARIUM 153; YTTRIUM 90;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA EXTRACTION; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KERNEL METHOD; MATERIALS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; SIMULATION; STANDARDIZATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BONE AND BONES; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WATER;

EID: 67650289914     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e3283299a11     Document Type: Article

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