Study of out‐of‐field dose in photon radiotherapy: A commercial treatment planning system versus measurements and Monte Carlo simulations

B Sánchez‐Nieto, KN Medina‐Ascanio… - Medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
used to determine dose from external beam RT includes measurements, treatment planning
systems (TPSs), and Monte Carlouse of film dosimetry for the commissioning and checking

Beam modeling and beam model commissioning for Monte Carlo dose calculation‐based radiation therapy treatment planning: Report of AAPM Task Group 157

CMC Ma, IJ Chetty, J Deng, B Faddegon… - Medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… calculation and dosimetry verification for advanced radiotherapy techniques has been … for
Monte Carlo (MC)–based treatment planning system (TPS). Note that the dose difference is the …

Validation of linear energy transfer computed in a Monte Carlo dose engine of a commercial treatment planning system

D Wagenaar, LT Tran, A Meijers… - Physics in Medicine …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Monte Carlo dose engines which are typically not used clinically. We present the first validation
… LET D against calculations by the Monte Carlo dose engines of the Raystation treatment

[HTML][HTML] … a treatment planning system developed for clinical boron neutron capture therapy and validation against an independent Monte Carlo dose calculation system

N Hu, H Tanaka, R Kakino, S Yoshikawa, M Miyao… - Radiation …, 2021 - Springer
… Furthermore, to validate and verify the new planning system, the dose distribution inside an
… a BNCT treatment planning system SERA and an in-house developed Monte Carlo dose

Clinical validation of a GPU-based Monte Carlo dose engine of a commercial treatment planning system for pencil beam scanning proton therapy

F Fracchiolla, E Engwall, M Janson, F Tamm… - Physica Medica, 2021 - Elsevier
… We presented the dosimetric validation of a clinical version of Monte Carlo … ones used in
this study no significant dosimetric differences have been introduced and the clinical validation

A standardized commissioning framework of Monte Carlo dose calculation algorithms for proton pencil beam scanning treatment planning systems

CW Chang, S Huang, J Harms, J Zhou… - Medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… The verified phase-space parameters were used in our TOPAS beam model. Equation (1)
describes how to use TOPAS to adjust TPS MC simulation for code benchmark or validation

[HTML][HTML] Dose calculation comparisons between three modern treatment planning systems

C Bosse, G Narayanasamy, D Saenz… - Journal of medical …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
… -Carlo (MC)-based dose calculation engine. The aim of this study is to verify and compare the
Monaco-based dose … Issues associated with clinical implementation of Monte Carlo-based …

[HTML][HTML] Out-of-field dose calculation by a commercial treatment planning system and comparison by monte carlo simulation for varian TrueBeam®

NS Shine, R Paramu, M Gopinath… - Journal of medical …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
… The calculation accuracy of treatment planning systems (TPSs) drops drastically when the
… In this study, the accuracy of out-of-field dose calculated by a TPS, used with a TrueBeam®(…

The commissioning and validation of Monaco treatment planning system on an Elekta Versa HD linear accelerator

JE Snyder, DE Hyer, RT Flynn… - Journal of applied …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… overall accuracy in the radiotherapy process. This study … beam model validation of a Monaco
treatment planning system on … Monte Carlo (MC) algorithms are the gold standard for dose

Treatment plan verification: a review on the comparison of dose distributions

S Diamantopoulos, K Platoni, G Patatoukas… - Physica Medica, 2019 - Elsevier
… dosimetric systemsverification procedure comes down to a dose distribution comparison:
Machine-delivered (reference) versus calculated by a Treatment Planning System-TPS dose