Accurate dose calculation is essential for radiotherapy. The present study benchmarks the performances of the anisotropic analytical algorithm (AAA), Acuros XB (AXB), and collapsed cone convolution ...

To investigate the feasibility of proton therapy planning using stopping power ratio (SPR) maps directly generated from spectral CT raw data, and to perform a comparative evaluation of dose ...

Introduction Radiation-induced lung injury (RILI) is one of the most clinically-challenging toxicities and dose-limiting factors during and/or after thoracic radiation therapy for oesophageal squamous ...

Our purpose was to assess the dosimetric effect of switching from the analytical anisotropic algorithm (AAA) to Acuros XB (AXB), with dose-to-medium (Dm) and dose-to-water (Dw) reporting modes, in ...

To evaluate, in terms of dosimetric accuracy and calculation efficiency, the implementation of a graphic processing unit (GPU)-based Acuros XB dose calculation engine within version 15.5 of the Varian ...

ABSTRACT: Purpose: The dosimetric accuracy of the recently released Acuros XB advanced dose calculation algorithm (Varian Medical Systems, Palo Alto, CA) is investigated for single radiation fields ...

Cancer Therapy and Research Center at University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Recent technological advances in the dose delivery, positioning, and immobilization of the patient have ...