Dose-calculation algorithms in the context of inhomogeneity corrections for high energy photon beams

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 4765-4775

  Papanikolaou, Niko ^a   Stathakis, Sotirios ^a  

^a Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose calculation; Inhomogeneity corrections; Photon beams

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS; RADIATION EFFECTS;

ADAPTIVE RADIOTHERAPY; DOSE CALCULATION; HIGH-ENERGY PHOTON BEAMS; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; INHOMOGENEITY CORRECTION; MONTE CARLO TECHNIQUES; PHOTON BEAMS; SUPERPOSITION ALGORITHMS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 70349653542     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3213523     Document Type: Article

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