A new approach to account for the medium-dependent effect in model-based dose calculations for kilovoltage x-rays

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 3919-3934

  Pawlowski, Jason M ^a   Ding, George X ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBING MEDIA; ATTENUATION CHARACTERISTICS; CALCULATION SPEED; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRECTION FACTORS; CT IMAGE; DOSE CALCULATION; EFFECTIVE ATOMIC NUMBER; ENERGY SPECTRA; GOLD STANDARDS; IMAGING DOSE; INHOMOGENEITIES; LOSS OF ACCURACY; MEAN DOSE; MEAN ERRORS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION TECHNIQUE; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PATIENT SETUP; SOFT TISSUE; X RAY BEAM;

ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY; ATOMS; BONE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ERRORS; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY; X RAYS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADULT; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION DOSAGE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 79960381641     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/13/011     Document Type: Article

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