Dose calculation software for helical tomotherapy, utilizing patient CT data to calculate an independent three-dimensional dose cube

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 160-167

  Thomas, Simon J ^a   Eyre, Katie R ^a   Tudor, G Samuel J ^a   Fairfoul, Jamie ^a  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

dose calculation; tomotherapy

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; PHANTOMS; RADIOTHERAPY; SOFTWARE TESTING; UROLOGY;

CYLINDRICAL PHANTOMS; DOSE CALCULATION; HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY; PHANTOM MEASUREMENTS; RAY TRACE ALGORITHMS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL GRIDS; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PARAMETERS;

MATLAB;

EID: 84855467210     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3668061     Document Type: Article

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