The effects of dose calculation resolution on dose accuracy for radiation therapy treatments of the lung. Part II. A comparison of dose distributions from an explicit lung model to dose distributions derived from a CT representation

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 687-693

  Babcock, Kerry ^a   Sidhu, Narinder ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b Saskatoon Cancer Center   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Computed tomography; Dosimetry; Lung; Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIOTHERAPY;

ACCURACY; ANATOMIC STRUCTURES; ATOMIC COMPOSITIONS; BRANCHING STRUCTURES; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; HOMOGENEOUS REGIONS; LUNG; RADIATION THERAPY TREATMENT;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

EID: 75749111745     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3285043     Document Type: Article

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