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1 On the conversion of dose to bone to dose to water in radiotherapy treatment planning systems 
Nick Reynaert, Frederik Crop, Edmond Sterpin, Iwan Kawrakow, Hugo Palmans  Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology  Volume 5, Pages (January 2018) DOI: /j.phro Copyright © 2018 The Authors Terms and Conditions

2 Fig. 1 Comparison of absolute depth dose curves modelling bone as water with electron density of bone (H20_DENSB) or bone with density of bone (BONE_DENSB) for a 6 MV quality photon beam. The electron density of both materials was identical. Dose to bone was converted, both using the stopping power ratio and the ratio of mass energy absorption coefficients and the resulting curves were superimposed. Fig. 3: Ratio dose to water to dose to medium for 6 MV photon beam. Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology 2018 5, 26-30DOI: ( /j.phro ) Copyright © 2018 The Authors Terms and Conditions

3 Fig. 2 Ratio of dose to water Dw,w to dose to medium Dm,m, shown in Fig. 1, for the 6 MV photon beam. The combined statistical uncertainty is added (1%). Both the ratio of mass energy absorption coefficients and the stopping power ratio are superimposed. Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology 2018 5, 26-30DOI: ( /j.phro ) Copyright © 2018 The Authors Terms and Conditions

4 Fig. 3 Impact of the calculation resolution on the interface effects. Interface effects in the depth dose curves are only visible when using small voxels. When using larger voxels (2 mm), the effect is smoothed out. Physics and Imaging in Radiation Oncology 2018 5, 26-30DOI: ( /j.phro ) Copyright © 2018 The Authors Terms and Conditions

5 Fig. 4 Dose ratio as defined in Fig. 1 for a 20 MV photon beam.
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