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Two new DOSXYZnrc sources for 4D Monte Carlo simulations of continuously variable beam configurations, with applications to RapidArc, VMAT, TomoTherapy and …

Lobo et al., 2010

Document ID
9415530397145206871
Author
Lobo J
Popescu I
Publication year
Publication venue
Physics in Medicine & Biology

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We present two new Monte Carlo sources for the DOSXYZnrc code, which can be used to compute dose distributions due to continuously variable beam configurations. These sources support a continuously rotating gantry and collimator, dynamic multileaf collimator …
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