The impact of low-Z and high-Z metal implants in IMRT: A Monte Carlo study of dose inaccuracies in commercial dose algorithms

Medical Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Spadea, Maria Francesca ^a,b   Verburg, Joost Mathias ^b   Baroni, Guido ^c,d   Seco, Joao ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MAGNA GRAECIA OF CATANZARO   (Italy)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^d Centro Nazionale Adroterapia Oncologica CNAO   (Italy)

Author keywords

dosimetry; IMRT; metal artifacts; metal density; Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; METAL IMPLANTS; METALS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; TITANIUM METALLURGY;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCAN; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; IMRT; METAL ARTIFACT REDUCTION; METAL ARTIFACTS; METAL DENSITY; MONTE CARLO ALGORITHMS; MONTE CARLO DOSE CALCULATION;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

GOLD; PLATINUM; TITANIUM; METAL;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; ATTENUATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; GAMMA RADIATION; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; METAL IMPLANTATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; METHODOLOGY; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; RADIATION DOSE;

ARTIFACTS; HUMANS; METALS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 84892172109     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4829505     Document Type: Article

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