Purpose: Accuracy in proton therapy treatment planning can be improved using Monte Carlo
(MC) simulations. However the long computation time of such methods hinders their use in …

The goal of this work was to facilitate the clinical use of Monte Carlo proton dose calculation
to support routine treatment planning and delivery. The Monte Carlo code Geant4 was used …

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 …

Abstract GATE (Geant4 Application for Emission Tomography) is a Monte Carlo simulation
platform developed by the OpenGATE collaboration since 2001 and first publicly released in …

Clinical investigations on post-irradiation PET/CT (positron emission tomography/computed
tomography) imaging for in vivo verification of treatment delivery and, in particular, beam …

Ion beam therapy is a rapidly growing technique for tumor radiation therapy. Ions allow for a
high dose deposition in the tumor region, while sparing the surrounding healthy tissue. For …

Purpose: Very fast Monte Carlo (MC) simulations of proton transport have been
implemented recently on graphics processing units (GPUs). However, these MCs usually …

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 …

Monte Carlo (MC) codes are increasingly spreading in the hadrontherapy community due to
their detailed description of radiation transport and interaction with matter. The suitability of a …

Hadrontherapy is a C++, free and open source application developed using the Geant4
Monte Carlo libraries. The basic version of Hadrontherapy is contained in the official Geant4 …