Commissioning dose computation models for spot scanning proton beams in water for a commercially available treatment planning system

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Zhu, X R ^a   Poenisch, F ^a   Lii, M ^a   Sawakuchi, G O ^a   Titt, U ^a   Bues, M ^a   Song, X ^a   Zhang, X ^a   Li, Y ^a   Ciangaru, G ^a   Li, H ^a   Taylor, M B ^a   Suzuki, K ^a   Mohan, R ^a   Gillin, M T ^a   Sahoo, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

convolution dose algorithms; proton beam; spot scanning

Indexed keywords

INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION; PATIENT TREATMENT; PROTON BEAMS; SCANNING;

CORRECTION FACTORS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; INTERMEDIATE DEPTHS; LARGE-ANGLE SCATTERING; SPOT SCANNING; SPREAD OUT BRAGG PEAKS; TRANSVERSE PROFILE; TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

GAUSSIAN BEAMS;

WATER; PROTON;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; ENERGY; IONIZATION; KERNEL METHOD; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON RADIATION; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SPOT SCANNING PROTON THERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROTONS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES; WATER;

EID: 84876161078     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4798229     Document Type: Article

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