Study of the IMRT interplay effect using a 4DCT Monte Carlo dose calculation

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Jensen, Michael D ^a   Abdellatif, Ady ^b   Chen, Jeff ^a,b   Wong, Eugene ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b LONDON REGIONAL CANCER PROGRAM   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CODES; DATA SETS; DUTY CYCLES; GAMMA ANALYSIS; LOG FILE; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO DOSE CALCULATION; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION METHODS; MULTILEAF COLLIMATORS; RESPIRATORY MOTIONS; RIGID MOTIONS; SIMULATION FRAMEWORK; STEP-AND-SHOOT;

PATIENT MONITORING; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ARTICLE; BREATHING; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INSTRUMENTATION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY);

FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOVEMENT; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RESPIRATION;

EID: 84859355621     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/8/N89     Document Type: Article

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