Kilovoltage beam Monte Carlo dose calculations in submillimeter voxels for small animal radiotherapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 4991-4999

  Bazalova, Magdalena ^a   Zhou, Hu ^a   Keall, Paul J ^a   Graves, Edward E ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bremsstrahlung splitting; Microct; Monte carlo; Small animal radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; EFFICIENCY; PHASE SPACE METHODS; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY;

BREMSSTRAHLUNG SPLITTING; CALCULATION APPROACHES; CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY; MICRO CT; MONTE CARLO DOSE CALCULATION; SMALL ANIMAL; STATISTICAL UNCERTAINTY; VARIANCE REDUCTION TECHNIQUES;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ARTICLE; BREMS RADIATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE CALCULATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SIMULATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 70350705566     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3238465     Document Type: Article

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