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

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 …

Abstract GATE (Geant4 Application for Emission Tomography) is a Monte Carlo simulation
platform developed by the OpenGATE collaboration since 2001 and first publicly released in …

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 …

The TOPAS Monte Carlo (MC) system is used in radiation therapy and medical imaging
research, having played a significant role in making Monte Carlo simulations widely …

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 …

A study of the performance of five commercial radiotherapy treatment planning systems
(TPSs) for common treatment sites regarding their ability to model heterogeneities and …

A comparative study was performed to reveal differences and relative figures of merit of
seven different calculation algorithms for photon beams when applied to inhomogeneous …

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

Purpose: The scope of this study was to determine a complete set of correction factors for
several detectors in static small photon fields for two linear accelerators (linacs) and for …