Fast patient-specific Monte Carlo brachytherapy dose calculations via the correlated sampling variance reduction technique

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1058-1068

  Sampson, Andrew ^a   Le, Yi ^a   Williamson, Jeffrey F ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

brachytherapy; correlated sampling; Monte Carlo; TG 43

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GEOMETRY; MEDICAL IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; RANDOM ERRORS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; UROLOGY;

AVERAGE EFFICIENCIES; BRACHYTHERAPY; CALCULATION EFFICIENCY; CLINICAL TARGET VOLUMES; CORRELATED SAMPLING; HETEROGENEOUS GEOMETRY; STATISTICAL UNCERTAINTY; TG-43;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 84856962372     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3679018     Document Type: Article

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