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

Background The use of the Monte Carlo (MC) method in radiotherapy dosimetry has
increased almost exponentially in the last decades. Its widespread use in the field has …

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 …

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 …

Introduction: The dose calculation plays a crucial role in many aspects of contemporary
clinical radiotherapy treatment planning process. It therefore goes without saying that the …

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

General-purpose radiation transport Monte Carlo codes have been used for estimation of
the absorbed dose distribution in external photon and electron beam radiotherapy patients …

Analytical models have traditionally been used to estimate dose distributions for treatment
planning in radiation therapy. Recently, some physicists have suggested that Monte Carlo …

Abstract The Monte Carlo group at the Medical College of Virginia has integrated Monte
Carlo dose calculation directly into a commercial treatment planning system. The design …

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 …