Abstract Treatment planning of heavy-ion radiotherapy involves predictive calculation of not
only the physical dose but also the biological dose in a patient body. The biological dose is …

Purpose: To present a comparison of the accuracy of two commercial electron beam
treatment planning systems: one uses a Monte Carlo algorithm and the other uses a pencil …

Ion beam therapy, as an emerging radiation therapy modality, requires continuous efforts to
develop and improve tools for patient treatment planning (TP) and research applications …

Abstract The use of Monte Carlo techniques for routine clinical treatment planning will soon
be with us in the sense that various commercial producers of treatment planning systems are …

To further validate the Monte Carlo dose‐calculation method [Med. Phys. 25, 867–878
(1998)] developed at the Memorial Sloan‐Kettering Cancer Center, we have performed …

In the present work, Monte Carlo (MC) models of electron beams (energies 4, 12 and
18MeV) from an Elekta SL25 medical linear accelerator were simulated using …

A new Monte Carlo algorithm for 3D photon dose calculation in radiation therapy is
presented, which is based on the previously developed Voxel Monte Carlo (VMC) for …

The aim of this project is to extend accurate and patient-specific treatment planning to new
treatment modalities, such as molecular targeted radiation therapy, incorporating previously …

A smoothing algorithm based on an optimization procedure is presented and evaluated for
single electron and photon beams and a full intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) …

Dw, the absorbed dose to water, has traditionally been the normalizing factor for dose
computationsrelated to treatment planning in radiation therapy with high-energy x-rays. This …