A TLD study of Acuros XB for lung SBRT using lung substitute material.

• Main Author: Soh, Roger Cai Xiang.
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Physics::Radiation physics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/53681
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Purpose: The recent development of a new photon transport algorithm, Acuros XB, has shown good potential to be an alternative to the benchmark, Monte Carlo method. The advantage of Acuros XB (AXB) is in regions of significant heterogeneity where it has been shown to be almost equivalent to Monte Car...