The importance of tissue segmentation for dose calculations for kilovoltage radiation therapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 3039-3049

  Bazalova, Magdalena ^a   Graves, Edward E ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

kilovoltage radiotherapy; Monte Carlo; small animal radiotherapy; tissue segmentation

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; ATOMS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RADIOTHERAPY; X RAY TUBES; X RAYS;

CLINICAL TREATMENTS; EFFECTIVE ATOMIC NUMBER; MASS DENSITY DIFFERENCE; ORTHOTOPIC LUNG TUMOR MODELS; SECOND-ORDER POLYNOMIAL; SEGMENTATION SCHEME; SMALL ANIMAL; TISSUE SEGMENTATION;

TISSUE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79958782572     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3589138     Document Type: Article

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