GATE as a GEANT4-based Monte Carlo platform for the evaluation of proton pencil beam scanning treatment plans

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 4223-4244

  Grevillot, L ^a,b,c   Bertrand, D ^c   Dessy, F ^c   Freud, N ^a,b   Sarrut, D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c IBA Group   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SCANNING; BEAM MODEL; DELIVERY SYSTEMS; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; GENERIC METHOD; HEALTHY TISSUES; HOMOGENEOUS MEDIA; HUMAN TISSUES; IMAGING APPLICATIONS; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO CODES; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; PENCIL BEAM; PROSTATE TREATMENT; STOPPING POWER; TEST CASE; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS; TREATMENT PLANS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION; PROTONS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SCANNING; TISSUE;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

PROTON; WATER;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROSTATE TUMOR; REPRODUCIBILITY;

HUMANS; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WATER;

EID: 84861155816     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/57/13/4223     Document Type: Article

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