Dose calculations in heterogeneous volumes with the GATE Monte Carlo software for radiological protection

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Table 3

Comparison of the mean dose ratio between the original resolution dose map (D_orig) and the resampled dose map obtained with the Volume-Weighting and Mass-Weighting algorithms (D_V-W or D_M-W).



	D_orig/D_V-W		D_orig/D_M-W		D_orig/D_V-W		D_orig/D_M-W

	Mean	Std dev	Mean	Std dev	Mean	Std dev	Mean	Std dev
Total	1.006	0.151	0.988	0.133	1.004	0.199	0.976	0.177
Skin	1.173	0.124	1.042	0.041	1.201	0.112	1.075	0.055
Lung	0.997	0.049	0.993	0.070	0.988	0.058	0.977	0.088
Heart	1.009	0.039	1.008	0.033	1.001	0.053	0.999	0.047
Bronchi	1.081	0.178	1.000	0.041	1.036	0.147	0.974	0.089
Bone	1.661	0.400	1.446	0.315	2.002	0.415	1.727	0.373
Adipose tissue	0.979	0.065	0.973	0.074	0.968	0.089	0.948	0.096
Muscle	0.986	0.094	0.978	0.113	0.970	0.112	0.954	0.138

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