A software tool for the quantitative evaluation of 3D dose calculation algorithms

Medical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1830-1836

  Harms, William B ^a   Low, Daniel A ^a   Wong, John W ^a,b   Purdy, James A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

3D radiation therapy treatment planning; Dose calculation; Dose calculation verification

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MODEMS; RADIOTHERAPY;

3D RADIATION THERAPY TREATMENT PLANNING; 3D RADIATIONS; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE CALCULATION VERIFICATION; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; RADIATION THERAPY TREATMENT PLANNING; SOFTWARE-TOOLS; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

VERIFICATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DOSE CALCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 7844245059     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.598363     Document Type: Article

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