The integration of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for guidance in external beam
radiotherapy has faced significant research and development efforts in recent years. The …

Monte Carlo techniques have become ubiquitous in medical physics over the last 50 years
with a doubling of papers on the subject every 5 years between the first PMB paper in 1967 …

Purpose: To demonstrate the feasibility of using a knowledge base of prior treatment plans
to generate new prostate intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) plans. Each new …

Dose calculation plays an important role in the accuracy of radiotherapy treatment planning
and beam delivery. The Monte Carlo (MC) method is capable of achieving the highest …

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 …

Abstract The Monte Carlo method enables accurate dose calculation for radiation therapy
treatment planning and has been implemented in some commercial treatment planning …

Monte Carlo (MC) simulations have traditionally been used for single field relative
comparisons with experimental data or commercial treatment planning systems (TPS) …

This paper reviews the radiation physics and dosimetric principles of stereotactic
radiosurgery (SRS) and stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT). Recent radiation therapy …

Modern cancer treatment techniques, such as intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT)
and stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), have greatly increased the demand for more …

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 …