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Development Of A New Independent Monte Carlo Dose Calculation Quality Assurance Audit Tool For Clinical Trials, Austin M. Faught
Development Of A New Independent Monte Carlo Dose Calculation Quality Assurance Audit Tool For Clinical Trials, Austin M. Faught
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Introduction: Commercially available treatment planning systems (TPS) may use a number of different radiation dose calculation algorithms during the planning process. The Radiological Physics Center (RPC), tasked with ensuring clinically comparable and consistent dose delivery amongst institutions participating in NCI funded multi-institutional clinical trials, has traditionally relied upon measurements to achieve this objective. As a supplement to the tools used by the RPC, an independent dose calculation tool is needed to determine patient dose distributions in three dimensions so as to act as a quality assurance tool for the dose calculations.
Methods: Multiple source models representing the output of Elekta …