Position-probability-sampled Monte Carlo calculation of VMAT, 3DCRT, step-shoot IMRT, and helical tomotherapy dose distributions using BEAMnrc/DOSXYZnrc

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 948-960

  Belec, Jason ^a,b   Ploquin, Nicolas ^a   La Russa, Daniel J ^a   Clark, Brenda G ^a,b  

^a OTTAWA REGIONAL CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

helical tomotherapy; intensity modulated arc therapy; Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RADIOTHERAPY;

HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTENSITY-MODULATED ARC THERAPIES; MONTE CARLO BASED CALCULATION METHOD; MONTE CARLO DOSE CALCULATION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION METHODS; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 79551675095     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3538922     Document Type: Article

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