Monte Carlo simulations applied to conjunctival lymphoma radiotherapy treatment

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 187, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 492-498

  Brualla, Lorenzo ^a   Palanco Zamora, Ricardo ^b   Steuhl, Klaus Peter ^a   Bornfeld, Norbert ^a   Sauerwein, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Linac; Monte Carlo; Radiotherapy; Small fields; Variance reduction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOANALYZER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONJUNCTIVA LYMPHOMA; ELECTRON; ELECTRON BEAM; EYE CANCER; GEOMETRY; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; LYMPHOMA; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PENCIL BEAM CONVOLUTION; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONJUNCTIVAL NEOPLASMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LYMPHOMA; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SOFTWARE; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80052270789     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: 1439099X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-011-2237-3     Document Type: Article

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