Dosimetric validation of the Acuros XB Advanced Dose Calculation algorithm: Fundamental characterization in water

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1879-1904

  Fogliata, Antonella ^a   Nicolini, Giorgia ^a   Clivio, Alessandro ^a   Vanetti, Eugenio ^a   Mancosu, Pietro ^b   Cozzi, Luca ^a  

^a ONCOLOGY INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

^b HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ALGORITHMS; BOLTZMANN TRANSPORT EQUATION; CLINICAL PRACTICES; DEGREE OF ACCURACY; DOSE CALCULATION; EXTERNAL RADIOTHERAPY; FLATTENING FILTERS; GENERAL PURPOSE; PHOTON BEAMS; PLANNING SYSTEMS; PRE-CLINICAL; RADIATION PARTICLES; SIMPLE GEOMETRIES; VALIDATION TEST; VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS;

BOLTZMANN EQUATION; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; PHOTONS;

ALGORITHMS;

WATER;

ALGORITHM; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOTONS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; WATER;

EID: 79952919293     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: 13616560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/56/6/022     Document Type: Article

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