A Monte Carlo-based procedure for independent monitor unit calculation in IMRT treatment plans

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 4299-4310

  Pisaturo, O ^a   Moeckli, R ^a   Mirimanoff, R O ^a   Bochud, F O ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBED DOSE; BEAMLETS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; FURTHER DEVELOPMENT; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; LEAST SQUARES FIT; LINEAR MATRIX EQUATIONS; MEASURED DATA; MONITOR UNIT CALCULATIONS; MONITOR UNITS; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO CODES; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; STEP-AND-SHOOT; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS; TREATMENT PLANS; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY;

HEAT SHIELDING; LIGHT WEIGHT ROLLING STOCK; PHYSICAL THERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

WATER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; GLIOBLASTOMA; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MENINGIOMA; MONITOR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 70249137312     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/13/022     Document Type: Article

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