Advances in kilovoltage x-ray beam dosimetry

R Hill, B Healy, L Holloway, Z Kuncic… - Physics in Medicine …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
This topical review provides an up-to-date overview of the theoretical and practical aspects
of therapeutic kilovoltage x-ray beam dosimetry. Kilovoltage x-ray beams have the property …

Report on G4‐Med, a Geant4 benchmarking system for medical physics applications developed by the Geant4 Medical Simulation Benchmarking Group

P Arce, D Bolst, MC Bordage, JMC Brown… - Medical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background Geant4 is a Monte Carlo code extensively used in medical physics for a wide
range of applications, such as dosimetry, micro‐and nanodosimetry, imaging, radiation …

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 …

The TOPAS tool for particle simulation, a Monte Carlo simulation tool for physics, biology and clinical research

B Faddegon, J Ramos-Méndez, J Schuemann… - Physica Medica, 2020 - Elsevier
Purpose This paper covers recent developments and applications of the TOPAS TOol for
PArticle Simulation and presents the approaches used to disseminate TOPAS. Materials and …

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 …

Monte Carlo systems used for treatment planning and dose verification

L Brualla, M Rodriguez… - Strahlentherapie und …, 2017 - search.proquest.com
General-purpose radiation transport Monte Carlo codes have been used for estimation of
the absorbed dose distribution in external photon and electron beam radiotherapy patients …

Evaluation of a commercial MRI Linac based Monte Carlo dose calculation algorithm with geant 4

SB Ahmad, A Sarfehnia, MR Paudel, A Kim… - Medical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: This paper provides a comparison between a fast, commercial, in‐patient Monte
Carlo dose calculation algorithm (GPUMCD) and geant4. It also evaluates the dosimetric …

[PDF][PDF] Recent improvements in geant4 electromagnetic physics models and interfaces

V Ivanchenko, J Apostolakis, AV Bagulya… - Progress in nuclear …, 2011 - academia.edu
An overview of the electromagnetic (EM) physics of the Geant4 toolkit is presented. Two sets
of EM models are available: the" Standard" initially focused on high energy physics (HEP) …

Development and validation of RAPID: a patient-specific Monte Carlo three-dimensional internal dosimetry platform

AE Besemer, YM Yang, JJ Grudzinski… - Cancer biotherapy & …, 2018 - liebertpub.com
This work describes the development and validation of a patient-specific Monte Carlo
internal dosimetry platform called RAPID (Radiopharmaceutical Assessment Platform for …

GMC: a GPU implementation of a Monte Carlo dose calculation based on Geant4

L Jahnke, J Fleckenstein, F Wenz… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a GPU implementation called GMC (GPU Monte Carlo) of the low energy (< 100
GeV) electromagnetic part of the Geant4 Monte Carlo code using the NVIDIA® CUDA …