Investigation of four-dimensional (4D) Monte Carlo dose calculation in real-time tumor tracking stereotatic body radiotherapy for lung cancers

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 5479-5487

  Chan, Mark K H ^a   Kwong, Dora L W ^b   Ng, Sherry C Y ^b   Tam, Eric K W ^a   Tong, Anthony S M ^a  

^a Theresa Po Cyberknife Center   (Hong Kong)

^b QUEEN MARY HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

4D dose calculation; Cyberknife; Monte Carlo dose calculation; stereotactic body radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DEFORMATION; DISEASES; DOSIMETRY; HISTOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIOTHERAPY; TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL; TUMORS;

CYBERKNIFE; DEFORMABLE IMAGE REGISTRATION; DOSE CALCULATION; GENERALIZED EQUIVALENT UNIFORM DOSE (GEUD); MONTE CARLO DOSE CALCULATION; NORMAL TISSUE COMPLICATION PROBABILITIES; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIOTHERAPY; TUMOR CONTROL PROBABILITY;

MOTION TRACKING;

EID: 84866070618     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4739249     Document Type: Article

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