Validation of a new grid-based Boltzmann equation solver for dose calculation in radiotherapy with photon beams

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 581-598

  Vassiliev, Oleg N ^a   Wareing, Todd A ^b   McGhee, John ^b   Failla, Gregory ^b   Salehpour, Mohammad R ^a   Mourtada, Firas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b Transpire Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY LEVEL; ADAPTIVE CARTESIAN GRID; ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHANTOMS; ARC THERAPY; BOLTZMANN TRANSPORT EQUATION; BREAST TREATMENT; CLINICAL USE; DOSE CALCULATION; DUAL-CORE; FINE RESOLUTION; GENERAL PURPOSE; GRID-BASED; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA; LOW DOSE; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PHOTON BEAMS; REFERENCE SOLUTION; STATISTICAL UNCERTAINTY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY;

BOLTZMANN EQUATION;

WATER;

AIR; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BONE; BREAST TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; LUNG; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TIME; VALIDATION STUDY;

AIR; ALGORITHMS; BONE AND BONES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOFTWARE; TIME FACTORS; WATER;

EID: 74549169230     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/3/002     Document Type: Article

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