Lloyd, 2011 - Google Patents
Evaluation of a deterministic Boltzmann solver for radiation therapy dose calculations involving high-density hip prosthesesLloyd, 2011
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Acuros External Beam (Acuros XB) is a new radiation dose calculation algorithm available as part of Varian Medical Systems' radiotherapy treatment planning system, ECLIPSE. Acuros XB calculates dose distributions by finding the deterministic solution to the linear …
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