Abstract An integrated Monte Carlo (MC) dose calculation system, MCRTV (Monte Carlo for
radiotherapy treatment plan verification), has been developed for clinical treatment plan …

A Monte Carlo treatment plan verification (MCTPV) system was developed for clinical
treatment plan verification (TPV), especially for the conformal and intensity-modulated …

Monte Carlo (MC) based dose calculations can compute dose distributions with an accuracy
surpassing that of conventional algorithms used in radiotherapy, especially in regions of …

Abstract The implementation of Monte Carlo dose calculation algorithms in clinical
radiotherapy treatment planning systems has been anticipated for many years. Despite a …

PURPOSE: To develop an infrastructure for the integrated Monte Carlo verification system
(MCVS) to verify the accuracy of conventional dose calculations, which often fail to …

Radiotherapy research lacks a flexible computational research environment for Monte Carlo
(MC) and patient-specific treatment planning. The purpose of this study was to develop a …

This thesis presents a new verification concept, the virtual accelerator, for dose calculation
algorithms used in treatment planning systems (TPSs) for external beam radiotherapy. The …

A Monte Carlo user code, MCDOSE, has been developed for radiotherapy treatment
planning (RTP) dose calculations. MCDOSE is designed as a dose calculation module …

The radiation therapy specific Voxel Monte Carlo (VMC++) dose calculation algorithm
achieves a dramatic improvement in MC dose calculation efficiency for radiation therapy …

The increase in complexity of treatment plans over time through modalities such as intensity
modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) and volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) has often not …