A review of the use and potential of the GATE Monte Carlo simulation code for radiation therapy and dosimetry applications

Medical Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Sarrut, David ^a   Bardiès, Manuel ^b   Boussion, Nicolas ^c   Freud, Nicolas ^a   Jan, Sébastien ^d   Létang, Jean Michel ^a   Loudos, George ^e,k   Maigne, Lydia ^f,g   Marcatili, Sara ^b   Mauxion, Thibault ^b   Papadimitroulas, Panagiotis ^f,g   Perrot, Yann ^g   Pietrzyk, Uwe ^h,i,l   Robert, Charlotte ^j   Schaart, Dennis R ^b   Visvikis, Dimitris ^c   Buvat, Irène ^c,j  

^a CENTRE LÉON BÉRARD   (France)

^b CANCER RESEARCH CENTER OF TOULOUSE   (France)

^c CHU MORVAN   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^e DIF   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

^g UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

ⁱ Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^j DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^k UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^l FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY;

COMPUTATIONAL TIME; CURRENT COMPUTING; DOSE MONITORING; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; GEANT4 TOOLKITS; HADRON THERAPY; INTRAOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; STATE OF THE ART;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; IMAGING PHANTOM; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRAOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR RADIOTHERAPY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOTHERAPY; REVIEW; ANIMAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PROCEDURES; RADIOMETRY;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 84900404871     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4871617     Document Type: Review

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