Calculated organ doses from selected prostate treatment plans using Monte Carlo simulations and an anatomically realistic computational phantom

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 5271-5286

  Bednarz, Bryan ^a   Hancox, Cindy ^a   Xu, X George ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER RISK; COMPUTATIONAL PHANTOM; EQUIVALENT DOSE; GANTRY ANGLES; INTEGRAL DOSE; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MONITOR UNITS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NEUTRON DOSE; PRIMARY BEAMS; PROSTATE CANCERS; PROSTATE TREATMENT; RADIATION TREATMENTS; RADIATION-INDUCED; TREATMENT PLANS; TREATMENT TECHNIQUES;

EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; FLUORESCENT SCREENS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NEUTRONS; PATIENT MONITORING; PHOTONS; PHYSICAL THERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY; RISK PERCEPTION; SIMULATORS; TELEVISION PICTURE TUBES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUTRON DOSIMETRY; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; IMAGE QUALITY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; METHODOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR;

ADULT; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 70350517931     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/17/013     Document Type: Article

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