Monte Carlo dose mapping on deforming anatomy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 5815-5830

  Zhong, Hualiang ^a,b   Siebers, Jeffrey V ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; ANALYTIC SOLUTION; CT IMAGE; DEFORMABLE IMAGE REGISTRATION; DEFORMATION MAP; DEPOSITED ENERGY; DISPLACEMENT VECTOR FIELDS; DOSE ACCUMULATION; DOSE MAPPING; INTERPOLATION METHOD; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO DOSE CALCULATION; NUMERICAL PHANTOMS; REFERENCE IMAGE; SOURCE IMAGES; TREATMENT PLANS;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGE REGISTRATION; INTERCHANGES; INTERPOLATION; MAPPING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DEFORMATION;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LUNG; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

HUMANS; LUNG; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70350623229     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/19/010     Document Type: Article

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