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On the conversion of dose to bone to dose to water in radiotherapy treatment planning systems

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Conversion factors between dose to medium (D(m,m)) and dose to water (D(w,w)) provided by treatment planning systems that model the patient as water with variable electron density are currently based on stopping power ratios. In the current paper it will be illustrated that t...

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Autores principales: Reynaert, Nick, Crop, Frederik, Sterpin, Edmond, Kawrakow, Iwan, Palmans, Hugo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7807555/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33458365
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.phro.2018.01.004