A Preliminary Study of In-House Monte Carlo Simulations: An Integrated Monte Carlo Verification System

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 571-579

  Mukumoto, Nobutaka ^a   Tsujii, Katsutomo ^a   Saito, Susumu ^a   Yasunaga, Masayoshi ^a   Takegawa, Hideki ^b   Yamamoto, Tokihiro ^a   Numasaki, Hodaka ^a   Teshima, Teruki ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA MEDICAL CENTER FOR CANCER AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

High precision radiotherapy; Monte Carlo simulations; Photon beam; Verification

Indexed keywords

CALCULATION TIME; CENTRAL PROCESSING UNITS; CLUSTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTATION EFFICIENCY; COMPUTATION TIME; COMPUTATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS; DICOM-RT; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSE PROFILE; DOSE-VOLUME HISTOGRAMS; HIGH PRECISION RADIOTHERAPY; HOMOGENEOUS CONDITIONS; IN-LINE; INHOMOGENEITIES; INPUT FILES; MATLAB LANGUAGES; MC SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; PATIENT'S ANATOMY; PHASE-SPACE DATA; PHOTON BEAM; PHOTON BEAMS; RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS; TREATMENT PLANS; VERIFICATION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; MATLAB; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHASE INTERFACES; PHASE SPACE METHODS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY; SEMICONDUCTOR COUNTERS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; HISTOGRAM; IONIZATION CHAMBER; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PARTICLE ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 69549122374     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.02.088     Document Type: Article

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