Zhang et al., 2013 - Google Patents
Comprehensive evaluation and clinical implementation of commercially available Monte Carlo dose calculation algorithmZhang et al., 2013
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- Zhang A
- Wen N
- Nurushev T
- Burmeister J
- Chetty I
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- Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics
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A commercial electron Monte Carlo (eMC) dose calculation algorithm has become available in Eclipse treatment planning system. The purpose of this work was to evaluate the eMC algorithm and investigate the clinical implementation of this system. The beam modeling of …
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