ALGEBRA: ALgorithm for the heterogeneous dosimetry based on GEANT4 for BRAchytherapy

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3273-3280

  Afsharpour, H ^a,b   Landry, G ^c   Damours, M ^a,b   Enger, S ^a,b   Reniers, B ^c   Poon, E ^d   Carrier, J F ^e   Verhaegen, F ^c,d   Beaulieu, L ^a,b  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^e NOTRE DAME HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST SEED IMPLANTS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; DICOM-RT; DOSE CALCULATION; HDR BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMAN TISSUES; LDR BRACHYTHERAPY; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO CODES; MUTUAL SHIELDING EFFECT; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; TASK GROUPS; VIRTUAL MODELS;

ALGEBRA; ALGORITHMS; DOSIMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RADIOTHERAPY; TISSUE; UROLOGY;

ONCOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST IMPLANTS; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84861120127     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/11/3273     Document Type: Article

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