Comparison between PENELOPE and electron Monte Carlo simulations of electron fields used in the treatment of conjunctival lymphoma

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 5469-5481

  Brualla, L ^a   Palanco Zamora, R ^b   Wittig, A ^a   Sempau, J ^c   Sauerwein, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBED DOSE; ADVANCED TREATMENT; BEAM SIZE; CPU TIME; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; ELECTRON FIELD; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; MC SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; PENELOPE; RADIATION BEAMS; RADIATION TRANSPORT CODES; STATISTICAL UNCERTAINTY; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS; TREATMENT TECHNIQUES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ONCOLOGY; SEMICONDUCTOR COUNTERS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COLLIMATOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONJUNCTIVA TUMOR; CONJUNCTIVAL LYMPHOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRON; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; LYMPHOMA; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PENELOPE SIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SIMULATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONJUNCTIVAL NEOPLASMS; ELECTRONS; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 70350679020     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/18/008     Document Type: Article

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