Monte Carlo vs. Pencil Beam based optimization of stereotactic lung IMRT

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Sikora, Marcin ^a   Muzik, Jan ^a   Söhn, Matthias ^a   Weinmann, Martin ^a   Alber, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG TUMOR; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RADIATION BEAM; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION SAFETY; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY; ALGORITHM; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 74049099803     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-4-64     Document Type: Article

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