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

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2651-2664

  Han, Tao ^a   Mikell, Justin K ^b   Salehpour, Mohammad ^a   Mourtada, Firas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Acuros XB; anisotropic analytical algorithm; collapsed cone convolution; deterministic dose calculation; Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CONVOLUTION; DOSIMETRY; MULTILAYERS; PHANTOMS; TISSUE;

ACUROS XB; ANISOTROPIC ANALYTICAL ALGORITHMS; COLLAPSED CONES; DOSE CALCULATION; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA; RADIATION TRANSPORT; THREEDIMENSIONAL (3-D); TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 79959550301     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3582690     Document Type: Article

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