Differences in dose-volumetric data between the analytical anisotropic algorithm and the x-ray voxel Monte Carlo algorithm in stereotactic body radiation therapy for lung cancer

Medical Dosimetry

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 95-99

  Mampuya, Wambaka Ange ^a   Matsuo, Yukinori ^a   Nakamura, Akira ^a   Nakamura, Mitsuhiro ^a   Mukumoto, Nobutaka ^a   Miyabe, Yuki ^a   Narabayashi, Masaru ^a   Sakanaka, Katsuyuki ^a   Mizowaki, Takashi ^a   Hiraoka, Masahiro ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

AAA dose calculation algorithm; Non small cell lung cancer; Stereotactic body radiation therapy; XVMC dose calculation algorithm

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ANISOTROPIC ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84873135070     PISSN: 09583947     EISSN: 18734022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meddos.2012.07.007     Document Type: Article

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