A dose point kernel database using GATE Monte Carlo simulation toolkit for nuclear medicine applications: Comparison with other Monte Carlo codes

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 5238-5247

  Papadimitroulas, Panagiotis ^a,b   Loudos, George ^b   Nikiforidis, George C ^a   Kagadis, George C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

Author keywords

dose point kernels; dosimetry; GATE; Monte Carlo simulations; radioimmunotherapy

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DOSIMETRY; ISOTOPES; MEDICAL IMAGING; MEDICAL PHYSICS; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PHOTONS; RADIOTHERAPY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTIONS; GATE; MEDICAL PHYSICS APPLICATION; MEDICINE APPLICATION; MONOENERGETIC ELECTRONS; POINT KERNELS; RADIATION INTERACTIONS; RADIOIMMUNOTHERAPY;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 84864662666     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4737096     Document Type: Article

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