Objective. The advantages of highly localised, conformal treatments achievable with
stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT) are increasingly being extended to extracranial sites as …

Purpose: The deterministic Acuros XB (AXB) algorithm was recently implemented in the
Eclipse treatment planning system. The goal of this study was to compare AXB performance …

Purpose: To demonstrate the feasibility of using a knowledge base of prior treatment plans
to generate new prostate intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) plans. Each new …

PURPOSE: To evaluate against Monte-Carlo the performance of various dose calculations
algorithms regarding lung tumour coverage in stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) …

In this work, a novel three-dimensional superposition algorithm for photon dose calculation
is presented. The dose calculation is performed as a superposition of pencil beams, which …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: In tangential beam treatments accurate dose calculation of
the absorbed dose in the build-up region is of major importance, in particular when the …

Purpose: The novel deterministic radiation transport algorithm, Acuros XB (AXB), has shown
great potential for accurate heterogeneous dose calculation. However, the clinical impact …

PURPOSE: To determine the implications of the use of the Anisotropic Analytical Algorithm
(AAA) for the production and dosimetric verification of IMRT plans for treatments of the …

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to verify the dosimetric performance of Acuros XB
(AXB), a grid‐based Boltzmann solver, in intensity‐modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and …

Purpose: To investigate the impact of the calculation resolution of the anisotropic analytical
algorithms (AAA) for a variety of small fields in homogeneous and heterogeneous media …