An essential requirement for successful radiation therapy is that the discrepancies between
dose distributions calculated at the treatment planning stage and those delivered to the …

Background: Nutrition informatics has become a novel approach for registered dietitians to
practice in this field and make a profit for health care. Recommendation systems considered …

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 …

A recent paper analyzed the sensitivity to various simulation parameters of the Monte Carlo
simulations of nine beams from three major manufacturers of commercial medical linear …

This article presents the implementation of several variance reduction techniques that
dramatically improve the simulation efficiency of ion chamber dose and perturbation factor …

Recent studies have proposed that light emitted by the Cherenkov effect may be used for a
number of radiation therapy dosimetry applications. There is a correlation between the …

Helical tomotherapy is a dedicated intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) system with
on‐board imaging capability (MVCT) and therefore differs from conventional treatment units …

Monte Carlo (MC) simulation of dose to water and dose to detector has been used to
calculate the correction factors needed for dose calibration and output factor measurements …

The purpose of this study is to provide detailed characteristics of incident photon beams for
different field sizes and beam energies. This information is critical to the future development …

Purpose: To use EGSnrc Monte Carlo simulations to directly calculate beam quality
conversion factors,, for 32 cylindrical ionization chambers over a range of beam qualities …