Clinical implementation of a Monte Carlo treatment planning system
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- 1 October 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Medical Physics
- Vol. 26 (10) , 2133-2143
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to implement the Monte Carlo method for clinical radiotherapy dose calculations. We used the EGS4/BEAM code to obtain the phase-space data for 6–20 MeV electron beams an...Keywords
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