Report of the AAPM Task Group No. 105: Issues associated with clinical implementation of Monte Carlo‐based photon and electron external beam treatment planning

IJ Chetty, B Curran, JE Cygler, JJ DeMarco… - Medical …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The Monte Carlo (MC) method has been shown through many research studies to calculate
accurate dose distributions for clinical radiotherapy, particularly in heterogeneous patient …

Fifty years of Monte Carlo simulations for medical physics

DWO Rogers - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

AAPM TG 158: measurement and calculation of doses outside the treated volume from external‐beam radiation therapy

SF Kry, B Bednarz, RM Howell, L Dauer… - Medical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The introduction of advanced techniques and technology in radiotherapy has greatly
improved our ability to deliver highly conformal tumor doses while minimizing the dose to …

TOPAS: an innovative proton Monte Carlo platform for research and clinical applications

J Perl, J Shin, J Schümann, B Faddegon… - Medical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: While Monte Carlo particle transport has proven useful in many areas (treatment
head design, dose calculation, shielding design, and imaging studies) and has been …

ICRU REPORT 96, dosimetry-guided radiopharmaceutical therapy

G Sgouros, WE Bolch, A Chiti… - Journal of the …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements (ICRU), since its
inception in 1925, has had as its principal objective the development of internationally …

Size-tuning ionization to optimize gold nanoparticles for simultaneous enhanced CT imaging and radiotherapy

Y Dou, Y Guo, X Li, X Li, S Wang, L Wang, G Lv… - ACS …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Computed tomography (CT) contrast and radiosensitization usually increase with particle
sizes of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs), but there is a huge challenge to improve both by …

[图书][B] Handbook of radiotherapy physics: theory and practice

P Mayles, A Nahum, JC Rosenwald - 2007 - taylorfrancis.com
From background physics and biological models to the latest imaging and treatment
modalities, the Handbook of Radiotherapy Physics: Theory and Practice covers all …

Addendum to the AAPMˈs TG‐51 protocol for clinical reference dosimetry of high‐energy photon beams

M McEwen, L DeWerd, G Ibbott, D Followill… - Medical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
An addendum to the AAPMˈs TG‐51 protocol for the determination of absorbed dose to
water in megavoltage photon beams is presented. This addendum continues the procedure …

[PDF][PDF] BEAMnrc users manual

DWO Rogers, B Walters, I Kawrakow - Nrc Report Pirs, 2009 - nrc-cnrc.github.io
Abstract BEAMnrc is a Monte Carlo simulation system (Med. Phys. 22, 1995, 503–524) for
modelling radiotherapy sources which was developed as part of the OMEGA project to …

[图书][B] Monte Carlo techniques in radiation therapy

J Seco, F Verhaegen - 2013 - api.taylorfrancis.com
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 …