A GPU‐accelerated Monte Carlo dose calculation platform and its application toward validating an MRI‐guided radiation therapy beam model

Y Wang, TR Mazur, O Green, Y Hu, H Li… - Medical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The clinical commissioning of IMRT subject to a magnetic field is challenging. The
purpose of this work is to develop a GPU‐accelerated Monte Carlo dose calculation platform …

Fast dose calculation in magnetic fields with GPUMCD

S Hissoiny, AJE Raaijmakers, B Ozell… - Physics in Medicine …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
A new hybrid imaging-treatment modality, the MRI-Linac, involves the irradiation of the
patient in the presence of a strong magnetic field. This field acts on the charged particles …

Evaluation of a commercial MRI Linac based Monte Carlo dose calculation algorithm with geant 4

SB Ahmad, A Sarfehnia, MR Paudel, A Kim… - Medical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: This paper provides a comparison between a fast, commercial, in‐patient Monte
Carlo dose calculation algorithm (GPUMCD) and geant4. It also evaluates the dosimetric …

Extension and validation of a GPU‐Monte Carlo dose engine gDPM for 1.5 T MR‐LINAC online independent dose verification

Y Li, S Ding, B Wang, H Liu, X Huang… - Medical Physics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To extend and validate the accuracy and efficiency of a graphics processing unit
(GPU)‐Monte Carlo dose engine for Elekta Unity 1.5 T Magnetic Resonance‐Linear …

Sensitive volume effects on Monte Carlo calculated ion chamber response in magnetic fields

VN Malkov, DWO Rogers - Medical Physics, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose The development of magnetic resonance‐guided radiation therapy (MR g RT)
necessitates accurate Monte Carlo (MC) models of ion chambers for computing ion chamber …

Commissioning a beam line for MR‐guided particle therapy assisted by in silico methods

H Fuchs, F Padilla‐Cabal, BM Oborn… - Medical Physics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Radiation therapy is continuously moving towards more precise dose delivery.
The combination of online MR imaging and particle therapy, for example, radiation therapy …

GPU-based fast Monte Carlo simulation for radiotherapy dose calculation

X Jia, X Gu, YJ Graves, M Folkerts… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Monte Carlo (MC) simulation is commonly considered to be the most accurate dose
calculation method in radiotherapy. However, its efficiency still requires improvement for …

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 …

Experimental evaluation of a GPU‐based Monte Carlo dose calculation algorithm in the Monaco treatment planning system

MR Paudel, A Kim, A Sarfehnia… - Journal of Applied …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
A new GPU‐based Monte Carlo dose calculation algorithm (GPUMCD), developed by the
vendor Elekta for the Monaco treatment planning system (TPS), is capable of modeling dose …

Development and validation of a 1.5 T MR‐Linac full accelerator head and cryostat model for Monte Carlo dose simulations

M Friedel, M Nachbar, D Mönnich, O Dohm… - Medical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To develop, implement, and validate a full 1.5 T/7 MV magnetic resonance (MR)‐
Linac accelerator head and cryostat model in EGSnrc for high precision dose calculations …