Dosimetric evaluation of the clinical implementation of the first commercial IMRT Monte Carlo treatment planning system at 6 MV

E Heath, J Seuntjens, D Sheikh‐Bagheri - Medical physics, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
In this work we dosimetrically evaluated the clinical implementation of a commercial Monte
Carlo treatment planning software (PEREGRINE, North American Scientific, Cranberry …

Monte Carlo verification of IMRT dose distributions from a commercial treatment planning optimization system

CM Ma, T Pawlicki, SB Jiang, JS Li… - Physics in Medicine …, 2000 - iopscience.iop.org
The purpose of this work was to use Monte Carlo simulations to verify the accuracy of the
dose distributions from a commercial treatment planning optimization system (Corvus …

Dose verification of an IMRT treatment planning system with the BEAM EGS4‐based Monte Carlo code

P Francescon, S Cora, P Chiovati - Medical Physics, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) has been increasingly used in radiotherapy
departments during the last several years. A major advantage of IMRT in comparison to …

Dosimetric evaluation of a Monte Carlo IMRT treatment planning system incorporating the MIMiC

P Rassiah-Szegedi, M Fuss… - Physics in Medicine …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
The high dose per fraction delivered to lung lesions in stereotactic body radiation therapy
(SBRT) demands high dose calculation and delivery accuracy. The inhomogeneous density …

Routine IMRT verification by means of an automated Monte Carlo simulation system

A Leal, F Sánchez-Doblado, R Arráns, J Roselló… - International Journal of …, 2003 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: A tool to simulate complete intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT)
treatments with the Monte Carlo (MC) method has been developed. This application is …

IMRT head and neck treatment planning with a commercially available Monte Carlo based planning system

C Boudreau, E Heath, J Seuntjens… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The PEREGRINE Monte Carlo dose-calculation system (North American Scientific,
Cranberry Township, PA) is the first commercially available Monte Carlo dose-calculation …

Clinical implementation of a Monte Carlo treatment planning system

CM Ma, E Mok, A Kapur, T Pawlicki, D Findley… - Medical …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
The purpose of this study was to implement the Monte Carlo method for clinical radiotherapy
dose calculations. We used the EGS4/BEAM code to obtain the phase‐space data for 6–20 …

Evaluation of clinical IMRT treatment planning using the GATE Monte Carlo simulation platform for absolute and relative dose calculations

S Benhalouche, D Visvikis, A Le Maitre… - Medical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The objective of this study was to evaluate and validate the use of the Geant4
application for emission tomography (GATE) Monte Carlo simulation platform for clinical …

Monte Carlo simulation for MLC-based intensity-modulated radiotherapy

T Pawlicki, CMC Ma - Medical Dosimetry, 2001 - Elsevier
This article describes photon beam Monte Carlo simulation for multi leaf collimator (MLC)-
based intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT). We present the general aspects of the …

MMCTP: a radiotherapy research environment for Monte Carlo and patient-specific treatment planning

A Alexander, F DeBlois, G Stroian… - Physics in Medicine …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
Radiotherapy research lacks a flexible computational research environment for Monte Carlo
(MC) and patient-specific treatment planning. The purpose of this study was to develop a …