A Monte Carlo pencil beam scanning model for proton treatment plan simulation using GATE/GEANT4

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 5203-5219

  Grevillot, L ^a,b   Bertrand, D ^b   Dessy, F ^b   Freud, N ^a   Sarrut, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b IBA Group   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; ION BEAMS; IONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NOZZLES; NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION;

BEAM DELIVERY SYSTEMS; CLINICAL PERFORMANCE; NUCLEAR INTERACTION; PROTON THERAPY SYSTEMS; SECONDARY PARTICLES; SPREAD OUT BRAGG PEAKS; THERAPEUTIC ENERGY; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

PROTON BEAM THERAPY;

PROTON;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION DOSE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 79961093153     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/16/008     Document Type: Article

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