Development and verification of an analytical algorithm to predict absorbed dose distributions in ocular proton therapy using Monte Carlo simulations

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 833-853

  Koch, Nicholas C ^a,b,c   Newhauser, Wayne D ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBED DOSE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYTICAL ALGORITHMS; ANALYTICAL METHOD; BEAM CONDITIONS; BRAGG PEAKS; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; MONITOR UNITS; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO ALGORITHMS; MONTE CARLO MODEL; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NON-INVASIVE TREATMENT; PROTON BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; PROTON DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; PROTON THERAPY; RESEARCH EFFORTS; TREATMENT PLANNING; UVEAL MELANOMA;

ALGORITHMS; NOZZLES; PROTON BEAMS; PROTONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

PROTON; WATER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EYE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOTHERAPY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EYE; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; WATER;

EID: 76149118817     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/3/019     Document Type: Article

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