MMCTP: a radiotherapy research environment for Monte Carlo and patient-specific treatment planning

A Alexander, F DeBlois, G Stroian… - Physics in Medicine …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

An overview of Monte Carlo treatment planning for radiotherapy

E Spezi, G Lewis - Radiation protection dosimetry, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The implementation of Monte Carlo dose calculation algorithms in clinical
radiotherapy treatment planning systems has been anticipated for many years. Despite a …

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
Dose calculation plays an important role in the accuracy of radiotherapy treatment planning
and beam delivery. The Monte Carlo (MC) method is capable of achieving the highest …

A Monte Carlo dose calculation tool for radiotherapy treatment planning

CM Ma, JS Li, T Pawlicki, SB Jiang… - Physics in Medicine …, 2002 - iopscience.iop.org
A Monte Carlo user code, MCDOSE, has been developed for radiotherapy treatment
planning (RTP) dose calculations. MCDOSE is designed as a dose calculation module …

Report of the AAPM Task Group No. 105: Issues associated with clinical implementation of Monte Carlo‐based photon and electron external beam treatment planning

IJ Chetty, B Curran, JE Cygler, JJ DeMarco… - Medical …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The Monte Carlo (MC) method has been shown through many research studies to calculate
accurate dose distributions for clinical radiotherapy, particularly in heterogeneous patient …

A preliminary study of in-house Monte Carlo simulations: an integrated Monte Carlo verification system

N Mukumoto, K Tsujii, S Saito, M Yasunaga… - International Journal of …, 2009 - Elsevier
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 …

[图书][B] A CT-based Monte Carlo dosimetry tool for radiotherapy treatment planning and analysis

JJ DeMarco - 1997 - search.proquest.com
Radiotherapy treatment planning has evolved considerably in the last twenty five years with
advances in computer hardware, image display, and plan evaluation tools. The calculation …

Monte Carlo in radiotherapy: experience in a distributed computational environment

B Caccia, M Mattia, G Amati, C Andenna… - Journal of Physics …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
New technologies in cancer radiotherapy need a more accurate computation of the dose
delivered in the radiotherapeutical treatment plan, and it is important to integrate …

Validation of a Monte Carlo dose calculation tool for radiotherapy treatment planning

JS Li, T Pawlicki, J Deng, SB Jiang… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2000 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract A new EGS4/PRESTA Monte Carlo user code, MCDOSE, has been developed as a
routine dose calculation tool for radiotherapy treatment planning. It is suitable for both …

An integrated Monte Carlo dosimetric verification system for radiotherapy treatment planning

T Yamamoto, T Mizowaki, Y Miyabe… - Physics in Medicine …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract An integrated Monte Carlo (MC) dose calculation system, MCRTV (Monte Carlo for
radiotherapy treatment plan verification), has been developed for clinical treatment plan …