The Monte Carlo (MC) method has been shown through many research studies to calculate
accurate dose distributions for clinical radiotherapy, particularly in heterogeneous patient …

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 online adaptive magnetic resonance (MR) image
guided radiation therapy (MR-IGRT) through reporting of our initial clinical experience and …

The computer code system penelope (version 2014) performs Monte Carlo simulation of
coupled electron-photon transport in arbitrary materials for a wide energy range, from a few …

Background and purpose Magnetic resonance-guided radiation therapy (MRgRT) has
recently become available in clinical practice and is expected to expand significantly in …

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 …

In the nineteen years since EGS4 was released, it has been used in a wide variety of
applications, particularly in medical physics, radiation measurement studies, and industrial …

Purpose. To develop and disseminate a report aimed primarily at practicing radiation
oncology physicians and medical physicists that describes the current state-of-the-art of …

Purpose: Two new codes, penEasy and penEasyLinac, which automate the Monte Carlo
simulation of Varian Clinacs of the 600, 1800, 2100, and 2300 series, together with their …

A new grid-based Boltzmann equation solver, Acuros™, was developed specifically for
performing accurate and rapid radiotherapy dose calculations. In this study we …