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Monte Carlo simulations of a kilovoltage external beam radiotherapy system on phantoms and breast patients

Breitkreutz et al., 2017

Document ID
18384950369621231000
Author
Breitkreutz D
Weil M
Zavgorodni S
Bazalova‐Carter M
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Medical Physics

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Purpose To determine the most suitable lesion size and depth for radiotherapy treatments with a prototype kilovoltage x‐ray arc therapy (KVAT) system through Monte Carlo simulations of the dose delivered to lesion, dose homogeneity, and lesion‐to‐skin ratio …
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