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Dosimetric comparison of Acuros XB deterministic radiation transport method with Monte Carlo and model‐based convolution methods in heterogeneous media

Han et al., 2011

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9180120155666783148
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Han T
Mikell J
Salehpour M
Mourtada F
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Medical Physics

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Purpose: The deterministic Acuros XB (AXB) algorithm was recently implemented in the Eclipse treatment planning system. The goal of this study was to compare AXB performance to Monte Carlo (MC) and two standard clinical convolution methods: the anisotropic …
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