Experimental verification of a commercial Monte Carlo-based dose calculation module for high-energy photon beams

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 54, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 7363-7377

  Künzler, Thomas ^a   Fotina, Irina ^a   Stock, Markus ^a   Georg, Dietmar ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARC THERAPY; AVERAGE VALUES; BEAM DATA; CLINICAL TESTS; CONFORMAL THERAPY; DENSITY INTERFACE; DEPTH DOSE; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE MEASUREMENT; DOSE PRESCRIPTION; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; HETEROGENEOUS CONDITIONS; HIGH-ENERGY PHOTON BEAMS; IN-PLANE; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; ION CHAMBER; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO ALGORITHMS; PHOTON BEAMS; RADIOCHROMIC FILM; SIMULTANEOUS INTEGRATED BOOSTS; STANDARD DEVIATION; TEST CASE; TISSUE INTERFACE; TISSUE-EQUIVALENT MATERIALS; TRANSVERSE PLANES; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CAVITY RESONATORS; DIFFERENTIAL THERMAL ANALYSIS; DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS;

TESTING;

ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; FILM; GAMMA RADIATION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; IONIZATION CHAMBER; IRRADIATION; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PHOTON THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIATION FIELD; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BENCHMARKING; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WATER;

EID: 71949103636     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/54/24/008     Document Type: Article

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