Comparison of monte carlo collimator transport methods for photon treatment planning in radiotherapy

Schmidhalter, D; Manser, P; Frei, D; Volken, W; Fix, M K (2010). Comparison of monte carlo collimator transport methods for photon treatment planning in radiotherapy. Medical physics, 37(2), pp. 492-504. College Park, Md.: American Association of Physicists in Medicine AAPM 10.1118/1.3284978

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The aim of this work was a Monte Carlo (MC) based investigation of the impact of different radiation transport methods in collimators of a linear accelerator on photon beam characteristics, dose distributions, and efficiency. Thereby it is investigated if it is possible to use different simplifications in the radiation transport for some clinical situations in order to save calculation time.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Haematology, Oncology, Infectious Diseases, Laboratory Medicine and Hospital Pharmacy (DOLS) > Clinic of Radiation Oncology > Medical Radiation Physics

UniBE Contributor:

Schmidhalter, Daniel, Manser, Peter, Frei, Daniel, Volken, Werner, Fix, Michael

ISSN:

0094-2405

Publisher:

American Association of Physicists in Medicine AAPM

Language:

English

Submitter:

Factscience Import

Date Deposited:

04 Oct 2013 14:09

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 14:00

Publisher DOI:

10.1118/1.3284978

PubMed ID:

20229858

Web of Science ID:

000274075600011

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/1065 (FactScience: 201790)

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