BACKGROUND There as yet exists no systematic planning study investigating the novel mARC rotational radiotherapy technique, which is conceptually different from VMAT. We therefore present a planning study for prostate cancer, comparing mARC with IMRT treatment at the same linear accelerator equipped with flat and flattening-filter-free (FFF) photon energies. METHODS We retrospectively re-cont...

We generalize the notion of an MV-algebra in the context of residuated lattices to include noncommutative and unbounded structures. We investigate a number of their properties and prove that they can be obtained from lattice-ordered groups via a truncation construction that generalizes the Chang–Mundici Γ functor. This correspondence extends to a categorical equivalence that generalizes the one...

In his classical paper 1 , Chang invented the notion of MV-algebra in order to provide an algebraic proof of the completeness theorem of infinite valued Lukasiewicz propositional calculus. Recently, the algebraic theory of MV-algebras is intensively studied, see 2–5 . The notion of derivation, introduced from the analytic theory, is helpful to the research of structure and property in algebraic...

PURPOSE Through the Monte Carlo (MC) simulation of 6 and 10 MV flattening-filter-free (FFF) beams from Varian TrueBeam accelerator, this study aims to find the best incident electron distribution for further studying the small field characteristics of these beams. METHODS By incorporating the training materials of Varian on the geometry and material parameters of TrueBeam Linac head, the 6 an...

Using SDSS I data, we have analysed the stellar distribution of the Leo II dwarf spheroidal galaxy (distance of 233 kpc) to search for evidence of tidal deformation. The existing SDSS photometric catalogue contains gaps in regions of high stellar crowding, hence we filled the area at the centre of Leo II using the DAOPHOT algorithm applied to the SDSS images. The combined DAOPHOTSDSS dataset co...

The sinewave generators based the switched-capacitor (SC) technologies are implemented in transistor level. This analogue sinewave generator consists of two parts: an approximate sinewave generator and a filter. The structure of this generator is robust and easily-controlled, in which an approximate sinewave is firstly generated based on SC circuits and then filter the harmonics. The main advan...

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A superposition/convolution GPU-accelerated dose computation algorithm (the Calculator) has been recently incorporated into commercial software. The algorithm requires validation prior to clinical use. Three photon energies were examined: conventional 6 MV and 15 MV, and 10 MV flattening filter free (10 MVFFF). For a set of IMRT and VMAT plans based on four of the five AAPM Practice Guideline 5...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the feasibility of using a flattening filter-free (FFF) beam with an endorectal balloon for stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy (SABR) of clinically localized prostate cancer. We assessed plans of SABR with volumetric-modulated arc therapy (VMAT) that used a flattening filter (FF) beam and an FFF beam and compared the verification results of dosim...