Four-dimensional monte carlo simulations demonstrating how the extent of intensity-modulation impacts motion effects in proton therapy lung treatments

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Dowdell, Stephen ^a   Grassberger, Clemens ^a,b   Paganetti, Harald ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MODULATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PROTON BEAM THERAPY; PROTON BEAMS;

3D MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; DEFORMABLE IMAGE REGISTRATION; EQUIVALENT UNIFORM DOSE; FIELD HOMOGENEITY; INTENSITY MODULATED PROTON THERAPIES; INTENSITY MODULATIONS; MITIGATION TECHNIQUES; TREATMENT PARAMETERS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED PROTON THERAPY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LUNG CANCER; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOTION; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOOL FOR PARTICLE SIMULATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME; COHORT ANALYSIS; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

COHORT STUDIES; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOVEMENT; PROTON THERAPY;

EID: 84890044123     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4829500     Document Type: Article

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