Efficient monte carlo simulation of multileaf collimators using geometry-related variance-reduction techniques

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 4131-4149

  Brualla, L ^a   Salvat, F ^b   Palanco Zamora, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBED DOSE; AUTOMATIC GENERATION; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; GEOMETRICAL MODIFICATION; MODULARIZED; MONTE CARLO CODES; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; PARAMETER VALUES; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; RADIATION TRANSPORT; SECONDARY RADIATIONS; STATISTICAL UNCERTAINTY; VARIANCE REDUCTION TECHNIQUES; VOXEL SIZE;

AUTOMATIC PROGRAMMING; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; SKIN;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; GEOMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 70249097082     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/13/011     Document Type: Article

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