Dosimetric verification of the anisotropic analytical algorithm in lung equivalent heterogeneities with and without bone equivalent heterogeneities

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 4456-4463

  Ono, Kaoru ^a   Endo, Satoru ^b   Tanaka, Kenichi ^c   Hoshi, Masaharu ^b   Hirokawa, Yutaka ^a  

^a Hiroshima Heiwa Clinic   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

AAA dose calculation algorithm; convolution superposition algorithm; dosimetric verification; heterogeneity corrections; MCNP; Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CONVOLUTION; DOSIMETRY; IONIZATION; IONIZATION CHAMBERS; PHANTOMS; PHOTONS;

ANISOTROPIC ANALYTICAL ALGORITHMS; CONVOLUTION/SUPERPOSITION; DIFFERENT DENSITIES; DOSE CALCULATION; HETEROGENEITY CORRECTIONS; LOW ENERGY PHOTONS; MCNP; SUPERPOSITION ALGORITHMS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BONE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; LUNG; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; BONE AND BONES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LUNG; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 78149482579     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3464748     Document Type: Article

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