Dosimetric validation of a commercial Monte Carlo based IMRT planning system

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 540-549

  Grofsmid, Dennis ^a   Dirkx, Maarten ^a   Marijnissen, Hans ^a   Woudstra, Evert ^a   Heijmen, Ben ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dosimetric validation; IMRT; Monaco; Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHANTOMS; TUMORS;

DIODE DETECTORS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSIMETRIC VALIDATION; END-TO-END TESTS; IMRT; INHOMOGENEITIES; MONACO; PLANNING SYSTEMS;

DOSIMETRY;

EID: 75749093066     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3284359     Document Type: Article

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