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

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 …

Purpose: Recommendations of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)
and the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO) on dose calculations for …

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

In this study, BrachyDose, a recently developed EGSnrc Monte Carlo code for rapid
brachytherapy dose calculations, has been benchmarked by reproducing previously …

The scope of this study was to estimate total scatter factors of the three smallest collimators
of the Cyberknife radiosurgery system (5–10 mm in diameter), combining experimental …

Monte Carlo methods are used to calculate a complete TG‐43 dosimetry parameter data set
for 27 low‐energy photon emitting brachytherapy sources (18 and 9). All Monte Carlo …

This study presents the results of EGSnrc Monte Carlo calculations of the dose distribution
surrounding a high dose rate brachytherapy source and 14 high dose rate and pulsed dose …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to acquire beam data for an MR‐linac, with and
without a 1.5 T magnetic field, by using a variety of commercially available detectors to …

This paper presents a detailed investigation into the calculation of perturbation and beam
quality correction factors for ionization chambers in high-energy photon beams with the use …