A novel approach in electron beam radiation therapy of lips carcinoma: A Monte Carlo study

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Shokrani, Parvaneh ^a   Baradaran Ghahfarokhi, Milad ^a,b   Zadeh, Maryam Khorami ^c  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN   (Iran)

^c AHVAZ JUNDISHAPUR UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

BEAMnrc code; dose enhancement; electron beam radiation therapy; lip carcinoma; Monte Carlo simulation

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRONS; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY;

BACKSCATTERED ELECTRONS; BEAMNRC CODE; DOSE ENHANCEMENTS; ELECTRON BEAM RADIATION; ELECTRON BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; LIP CARCINOMA; PLANNING TARGET VOLUMES; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

POLYSTYRENE;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; ELECTRON BEAM; ELECTRON THERAPY; HISTOGRAM; LIP CARCINOMA; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DEPTH DOSE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; THICKNESS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRON; HUMAN; LIP TUMOR; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; METHODOLOGY; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONS; HUMANS; LIP NEOPLASMS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEOPLASMS, SQUAMOUS CELL; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84876171959     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4795756     Document Type: Article

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