The difference of scoring dose to water or tissues in Monte Carlo dose calculations for low energy brachytherapy photon sources

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1526-1533

  Landry, Guillaume ^a   Reniers, Brigitte ^a   Pignol, Jean Philippe ^b   Beaulieu, Luc ^c,d   Verhaegen, Frank ^a,e  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^e MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

dose conversion; model based dose calculation; Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; HISTOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ONCOLOGY; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY; UROLOGY;

DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE CONVERSION; LOW ENERGY PHOTONS; MONTE CARLO DOSE CALCULATION; SINGLE POINT SOURCE; SPECTRAL VARIATION; SPHERICAL GEOMETRIES; TISSUE COMPOSITION;

TISSUE;

PERU TOMATO MOSAIC VIRUS;

EID: 79952130860     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3549760     Document Type: Article

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