Fast dose calculation in magnetic fields with GPUMCD

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 5119-5129

  Hissoiny, S ^a   Raaijmakers, A J E ^b   Ozell, B ^a   Despres P ^c,d   Raaymakers, B W ^b  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^d LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR CAVITY; ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; CALCULATION SPEED; DEPTH DOSE; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; DOSE EFFECTS; EXECUTION TIME; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; GAMMA ANALYSIS; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; MONTE CARLO DOSE CALCULATION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; PENCIL BEAM; PLANNING STAGES; PROOF OF CONCEPT; RE-PLANNING; STATISTICAL UNCERTAINTY; STRONG MAGNETIC FIELDS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; LORENTZ FORCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETISM; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PATIENT TREATMENT; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MAGNETIC FIELD; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIATION DOSE; REPRODUCIBILITY; TIME;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79961069898     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/16/003     Document Type: Article

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