The integration of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for guidance in external beam
radiotherapy has faced significant research and development efforts in recent years. The …

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

We describe a new method to convert CT numbers into mass density and elemental weights
of tissues required as input for dose calculations with Monte Carlo codes such as EGS4. As …

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 …

DOSXYZnrc is an EGSnrc-based Monte Carlo simulation code for calculating dose
distributions in a rectilinear voxel phantom and is based directly on the DOSXYZ code …

Dose calculation methods for photon beams are reviewed in the context of radiation therapy
treatment planning. Following introductory summaries on photon beam characteristics and …

Background The use of the Monte Carlo (MC) method in radiotherapy dosimetry has
increased almost exponentially in the last decades. Its widespread use in the field has …

Abstract A new Monte Carlo (MC) algorithm, thedose planning method'(DPM), and its
associated computer program for simulating the transport of electrons and photons in …

A new Monte Carlo algorithm for 3D photon dose calculation in radiation therapy is
presented, which is based on the previously developed Voxel Monte Carlo (VMC) for …

Purpose: The deterministic Acuros XB (AXB) algorithm was recently implemented in the
Eclipse treatment planning system. The goal of this study was to compare AXB performance …