Clinical implementation of a GPU-based simplified Monte Carlo method for a treatment planning system of proton beam therapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 22, 2011, Pages

  Kohno, R ^a,b   Hotta, K ^a,c   Nishioka, S ^a,d   Matsubara, K ^e   Tansho, R ^f   Suzuki, T ^g  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d Foundation for Promotion of Cancer Research   (Japan)

^e TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^g HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PROTONS; COMPUTATION TIME; DEVICE ARCHITECTURES; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; HEAD AND NECK; MONTE CARLO; PLANNING TARGET VOLUMES; PROSTATE CANCERS; PROTON BEAM THERAPY; STATISTICAL ERRORS; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DISEASES; ERRORS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; PROTONS;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT;

PROTON;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIATION DOSE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 80155188738     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/22/N03     Document Type: Article

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