Dose calculation accuracy of the monte carlo algorithm for cyberknife compared with other commercially available dose calculation algorithms

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 347-350

  Sharma, Subhash ^a   Ott, Joseph ^a   Williams, Jamone ^a   Dickow, Danny ^a  

^a Parkview Comprehensive Cancer Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyberknife; Dose calculation; Heterogeneity corrections; Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYBERKNIFE; DENSITY; DOSIMETRY; GAMMA RADIATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PHOTON; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION SCATTERING; X RAY FILM;

EID: 80755163635     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: 18734022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meddos.2010.09.001     Document Type: Article

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