A modular method to handle multiple time-dependent quantities in Monte Carlo simulations

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3295-3308

  Shin, J ^a   Perl, J ^b   Schumann J ^c   Paganetti, H ^c   Faddegon, B A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM CURRENTS; BEAM SCATTERING; BRAGG PEAK POSITIONS; BRAGG PEAKS; CLINICAL SITUATIONS; DOSE CALCULATION; ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS; FLUENCES; GENERAL METHOD; GEOMETRICAL OBJECTS; MASSACHUSETTS; MEDICAL COMMUNITY; MODULAR METHODS; MODULAR STRUCTURES; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; PARTICLE SIMULATIONS; PULSE SHAPES; SCANNING MODE; TIME DEPENDENT SIMULATION; TIME FEATURES; TIME RESOLUTION; TIME VALUES; TIME-DEPENDENT; TIME-DEPENDENT CHANGES; UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION; UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA; WATER COLUMNS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC FIELDS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

PROTON;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; TIME;

MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84861146892     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/11/3295     Document Type: Article

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