Intensity modulated dose calculation with an improved experimental pencil-beam kernel
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Intensity modulated dose calculation with an improved experimental pencil-beam kernel.
PURPOSE This article presents an improved pencil-beam dose calculation formalism based on an experimental kernel obtained by deconvolution. The new algorithm makes it possible to calculate the absorbed dose for all field sizes. METHODS The authors have enhanced their previous work [J. D. Azcona and J. Burguete, Med. Phys. 35, 248-259 (2008)] by correcting the kernel tail representing the cont...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical Physics
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0094-2405
DOI: 10.1118/1.3476467