Fast Monte Carlo simulation for patient-specific CT/CBCT imaging dose calculation

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 577-590

  Jia, Xun ^a   Yan, Hao ^a   Gu, Xuejun ^a   Jiang, Steve B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; COMPUTATION TIME; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONEBEAM CT; DOSE CALCULATION; IMAGING DOSE; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; RELATIVE STANDARD DEVIATIONS; SCANNING GEOMETRY; SIMPLE MODIFICATIONS; WATER PHANTOM; XRAY IMAGING;

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EFFICIENCY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; TOMOGRAPHY; X RAY ANALYSIS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

WATER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEAD; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; X RAY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WATER; X-RAYS;

EID: 84856104489     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/3/577     Document Type: Article

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