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Conversely, the RTIS application is solely analytical and maximizes speed, only simulating a single CT slice and storing partial results to enable dynamic updating of the simulation. Validation compared GECCO simulations of an XCAT phantom, a virtual Catphan phantom, and an elementally decomposed planning CT of a central nervous system (CNS) patient to GGEMs MC projections, TrueBeam CBCT of a Catphan, and a registered CNS patient CBCT,\u00a0respectively.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The GECCO application took 63 min to simulate 915 full\u2010resolution projection CNS patient CBCT on an NVIDIA 4090 GPU. The virtual Catphan sensitometry module showed an RMSE of 5.7 HU compared to the TrueBeam on\u2010board imager (OBI). Likewise, RTIS had an initialization time of 917 ms and an update time of 36 ms, three orders of magnitude faster than any other simulation application. 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