MCDOSE—A Monte Carlo dose calculation tool for radiation therapy treatment planning

CM Ma, JS Li, T Pawlicki, SB Jiang, J Deng - The Use of Computers in …, 2000 - Springer
Abstract MCDOSE is an EGS4 [1] user code developed at Stanford University for radiation
therapy treatment planning dose calculations. MCDOSE can be used to simulate the …

Monte Carlo treatment planning for photon and electron beams

N Reynaert, SC Van der Marck, DR Schaart… - Radiation Physics and …, 2007 - Elsevier
During the last few decades, accuracy in photon and electron radiotherapy has increased
substantially. This is partly due to enhanced linear accelerator technology, providing more …

TransDose: a transformer-based UNet model for fast and accurate dose calculation for MR-LINACs

F Xiao, J Cai, X Zhou, L Zhou, T Song… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. To present a transformer-based UNet model (TransDose) for fast and accurate
dose calculation for magnetic resonance-linear accelerators (MR-LINACs). Approach. A 2D …

A formalism for reference dosimetry in photon beams in the presence of a magnetic field

B van Asselen, SJ Woodings, SL Hackett… - Physics in Medicine …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
A generic formalism is proposed for reference dosimetry in the presence of a magnetic field.
Besides the regular correction factors from the conventional reference dosimetry formalisms …

Monte Carlo methods for device simulations in radiation therapy

H Park, H Paganetti, J Schuemann… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Monte Carlo (MC) simulations play an important role in radiotherapy, especially as a method
to evaluate physical properties that are either impossible or difficult to measure. For …

Dosimetric and geometric evaluation of an open low-field magnetic resonance simulator for radiotherapy treatment planning of brain tumours

BH Kristensen, FJ Laursen, V Løgager… - Radiotherapy and …, 2008 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is superior to
computed tomography (CT) in radiotherapy of brain tumours. In this study an open low-field …

Clinical use of a commercial Monte Carlo treatment planning system for electron beams

JE Cygler, C Lochrin, GM Daskalov… - Physics in Medicine …, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
In 2002 we fully implemented clinically a commercial Monte Carlo based treatment planning
system for electron beams. The software, developed by MDS Nordion (presently Nucletron) …

GPU-based Monte Carlo radiotherapy dose calculation using phase-space sources

RW Townson, X Jia, Z Tian, YJ Graves… - Physics in Medicine …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
A novel phase-space source implementation has been designed for graphics processing
unit (GPU)-based Monte Carlo dose calculation engines. Short of full simulation of the linac …

[HTML][HTML] Development of a Geant4 based Monte Carlo Algorithm to evaluate the MONACO VMAT treatment accuracy

J Fleckenstein, L Jahnke, F Lohr, F Wenz… - … für Medizinische Physik, 2013 - Elsevier
A method to evaluate the dosimetric accuracy of volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT)
treatment plans, generated with the MONACOTM (version 3.0) treatment planning system in …

ARCHERRT – A GPU‐based and photon‐electron coupled Monte Carlo dose computing engine for radiation therapy: Software development and application to …

L Su, Y Yang, B Bednarz, E Sterpin, X Du, T Liu… - Medical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Using the graphical processing units (GPU) hardware technology, an extremely
fast Monte Carlo (MC) code ARCHERRT is developed for radiation dose calculations in …