Adaptation of GEANT4 to Monte Carlo dose calculations based on CT data: Monte Carlo dose calculations based on CT data

H Jiang, H Paganetti - Medical physics, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
The geant4 Monte Carlo code provides many powerful functions for conducting particle
transport simulations with great reliability and flexibility. However, as a general purpose …

[图书][B] Monte Carlo techniques in radiation therapy

J Seco, F Verhaegen - 2013 - api.taylorfrancis.com
Monte Carlo simulation techniques made a slow entry in the field of radiotherapy in the late
1970s. Since then they have gained enormous popularity, judging by the number of papers …

Region‐oriented CT image representation for reducing computing time of Monte Carlo simulations

D Sarrut, L Guigues - Medical physics, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose. We propose a new method for efficient particle transportation in voxelized
geometry for Monte Carlo simulations. We describe its use for calculating dose distribution in …

Application of GEANT4 radiation transport toolkit to dose calculations in anthropomorphic phantoms

P Rodrigues, A Trindade, L Peralta, C Alves… - Applied Radiation and …, 2004 - Elsevier
In this paper, we present a novel implementation of a dose calculation application, based on
the GEANT4 Monte Carlo toolkit. Validation studies were performed with an homogeneous …

GMC: a GPU implementation of a Monte Carlo dose calculation based on Geant4

L Jahnke, J Fleckenstein, F Wenz… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a GPU implementation called GMC (GPU Monte Carlo) of the low energy (< 100
GeV) electromagnetic part of the Geant4 Monte Carlo code using the NVIDIA® CUDA …

The TOPAS tool for particle simulation, a Monte Carlo simulation tool for physics, biology and clinical research

B Faddegon, J Ramos-Méndez, J Schuemann… - Physica Medica, 2020 - Elsevier
Purpose This paper covers recent developments and applications of the TOPAS TOol for
PArticle Simulation and presents the approaches used to disseminate TOPAS. Materials and …

Layered mass geometry: a novel technique to overlay seeds and applicators onto patient geometry in Geant4 brachytherapy simulations

SA Enger, G Landry, M D'Amours… - Physics in Medicine …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
A problem faced by all Monte Carlo (MC) particle transport codes is how to handle
overlapping geometries. The Geant4 MC toolkit allows the user to create parallel geometries …

A CT‐based Monte Carlo simulation tool for dosimetry planning and analysis

JJ DeMarco, TD Solberg, JB Smathers - Medical physics, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
The Los Alamos code mcnp4a (M_onte C_arlo N_‐P_article version 4A) is currently used to
simulate a variety of problems ranging from nuclear reactor analysis to boron neutron …

Efficient voxel navigation for proton therapy dose calculation in TOPAS and Geant4

J Schümann, H Paganetti, J Shin… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
A key task within all Monte Carlo particle transport codes is' navigation', the calculation to
determine at each particle step what volume the particle may be leaving and what volume …

Consistency test of the electron transport algorithm in the GEANT4 Monte Carlo code

E Poon, J Seuntjens, F Verhaegen - Physics in Medicine & …, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
In this work, the condensed history algorithm in GEANT4 (version 4.6. 2. p01) is examined.
We performed simulations of an ionization chamber composed of water for 1.25 MeV …