A free database of radionuclide voxel S values for the dosimetry of nonuniform activity distributions

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 517-533

  Lanconelli, N ^a   Pacilio, M ^b   Meo, S Lo ^a   Botta, F ^c   Dia, A Di ^c   Aroche, L A Torres ^d   Pérez, M A Coca ^d   Cremonesi, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b SAN CAMILLO FORLANINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^d Center for Clinical Researches   (Cuba)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY DISTRIBUTION; ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY; ANATOMIC REGIONS; BIOLOGICAL TARGETS; DATA SETS; DIRECT SIMULATION; EMISSION SPECTRUMS; FUNCTIONAL IMAGES; HOMOGENEOUS TISSUES; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO CODES; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; PENELOPE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION TRANSPORT; RADIONUCLIDE STUDIES; RADIONUCLIDE THERAPY; SOFT TISSUE; SPECT/CT; VALUE METHODS; VOXEL SIZE;

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; RADIOISOTOPES; TISSUE;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

RADIOISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; BONE; ELECTRON; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTON; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

BONE AND BONES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ELECTRONS; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTONS; RADIOISOTOPES; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84855597618     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/2/517     Document Type: Article

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