Purpose To assess the impact of approximations in current analytical dose calculation
methods (ADCs) on tumor control probability (TCP) in proton therapy. Methods Dose …

Purpose GATE‐RTion is a validated version of GATE for clinical use in the field of light ion
beam therapy. This paper describes the GATE‐RTion project and illustrates its potential …

Dose in radiation therapy is traditionally reported as the water-equivalent dose, or dose to
water. Monte Carlo dose calculations report dose to medium and thus a methodology is …

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the potential of using in-room positron
emission tomography (PET) for treatment verification in proton therapy and for deriving …

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 …

During particle therapy irradiation, positron emitters with half-lives ranging from 2 to 20 min
are generated from nuclear processes. The half-lives are such that it is possible either to …

To evaluate the effect of approximations in clinical analytical calculations performed by a
treatment planning system (TPS) on dosimetric indices in intensity modulated proton …

Background Due to their favorable physical and biological properties, helium ion beams are
increasingly considered a promising alternative to proton beams for radiation therapy …

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 …

Purpose Monte Carlo (MC) dose calculation is generally superior to analytical dose
calculation (ADC) used in commercial TPS to model the dose distribution especially for …