Fluence-convolution broad-beam (FCBB) dose calculation

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 55, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 7211-7229

  Lu, Weiguo ^a   Chen, Mingli ^a  

^a TOMOTHERAPY INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2-D CONVOLUTION; BEAMLETS; CENTRAL AXIS; CONVOLUTION/SUPERPOSITION; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE CORRECTION; FLUENCES; LATERAL SPREAD; LOOK UP TABLE; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PENCIL BEAM; SIMPLE ALGORITHM;

CONVOLUTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; RADIOLOGY; TABLE LOOKUP;

ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIATION DOSE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTERS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 78650038159     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/23/003     Document Type: Article

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