A Monte Carlo (MC) code (VMCpro) for treatment planning in proton beam therapy of cancer
is introduced. It is based on ideas of the Voxel Monte Carlo algorithm for photons and …

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

Monte Carlo (MC)‐based dose calculations are generally superior to analytical dose
calculations (ADC) in modeling the dose distribution for proton pencil beam scanning (PBS) …

Purpose Treatment planning systems (TPSs) from different vendors can involve different
implementations of Monte Carlo dose calculation (MCDC) algorithms for pencil beam …

Monte Carlo (MC) simulations of beam interaction and transport in matter are increasingly
considered as essential tools to support several aspects of radiation therapy. Despite the …

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

We propose a method of creating and validating a Monte Carlo (MC) model of a proton
Pencil Beam Scanning (PBS) machine using only commissioning measurements and …

Contemporary treatment planning systems for proton radiotherapy typically use analytical
pencil-beam algorithms—which require a comprehensive set of configuration data—to …

In the field of radiotherapy, Monte Carlo (MC) particle transport calculations are recognized
for their superior accuracy in predicting dose and fluence distributions in patient geometries …

Purpose: The motivation of this study was to find and eliminate the cause of errors in dose‐
averaged linear energy transfer (LET) calculations from therapeutic protons in small targets …