Investigation of voxel warping and energy mapping approaches for fast 4D Monte Carlo dose calculations in deformed geometries using VMC++

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 5187-5202

  Heath, Emily ^a,b   Tessier, Frederic ^c   Kawrakow, Iwan ^d  

^a Deutsche Krebsforschungzentrum ^*  (Germany)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^d SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMABLE GEOMETRY; DOSE CALCULATION; EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT; ENERGY DIFFERENCES; MAPPING METHOD; MONTE CARLO CODES; MONTE CARLO DOSE CALCULATION; PATIENT GEOMETRIES; REFERENCE DOSE; REGISTRATION ACCURACY; REGISTRATION ERROR;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; INVESTMENTS; MAPPING;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ENERGY TRANSFER; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION DOSE; REPRODUCIBILITY; TIME;

ENERGY TRANSFER; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79961069897     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/16/007     Document Type: Article

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