Monte Carlo study of the potential reduction in out-of-field dose using a patient-specific aperture in pencil beam scanning proton therapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2829-2842

  Dowdell, Stephen J ^a,b   Clasie, Benjamin ^b   Depauw, Nicolas ^a,b   Metcalfe, Peter ^a   Rosenfeld, Anatoly B ^a   Kooy, Hanne M ^b   Flanz, Jacob B ^b   Paganetti, Harald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBED DOSE; EQUIVALENT DOSE; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; MASSACHUSETTS; MONTE CARLO CODES; MONTE CARLO MODEL; MONTE CARLO STUDY; NORMAL TISSUE; NOZZLE EXITS; PENCIL BEAM; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; POTENTIAL REDUCTION; PRIMARY RADIATIONS; PROTON BEAM SCANNING; PROTON THERAPY; SUBMILLIMETERS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION; PROTON BEAMS; SCANNING; TISSUE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

PROTON;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIATION DOSE; REPRODUCIBILITY;

HUMANS; INDIVIDUALIZED MEDICINE; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PROTONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84860361249     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/10/2829     Document Type: Article

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