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February 9, 2012SHILAP Revista de lepidopterologíaOpen Access

Evaluation of heterogeneity dose distributions for Stereotactic Radiotherapy (SRT): comparison of commercially available Monte Carlo dose calculation with other algorithms

Wataru Takahashi Hideomi Yamashita Naoya Saotome Yoshio Iwai A. Sakumi Akihiro Haga Keiichi Nakagawa

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Abstract

Our work clearly confirms that the actual practice of relying solely on a Clarkson algorithm may be inappropriate for SRT planning. Meanwhile, CCC and SP were close to XVMC simulations and actual dose distributions obtained in lung SRT.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/69dff60eca6b6a2615860622 https://doi.org/10.1186/1748-717x-7-20

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