Towards the elimination of Monte Carlo statistical fluctuation from dose volume histograms for radiotherapy treatment planning
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Towards the elimination of Monte Carlo statistical fluctuation from dose volume histograms for radiotherapy treatment planning.
The Monte Carlo calculation of dose for radiotherapy treatment planning purposes introduces unavoidable statistical noise into the prediction of dose in a given volume element (voxel). When the doses in these voxels are summed to produce dose volume histograms (DVHs), this noise translates into a broadening of differential DVHs and correspondingly flatter DVHs. A brute force approach would enta...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physics in Medicine and Biology
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0031-9155,1361-6560
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/45/1/310