Report of the AAPM Task Group No. 105: Issues associated with clinical implementation of Monte Carlo‐based photon and electron external beam treatment planning

IJ Chetty, B Curran, JE Cygler, JJ DeMarco… - Medical …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The Monte Carlo (MC) method has been shown through many research studies to calculate
accurate dose distributions for clinical radiotherapy, particularly in heterogeneous patient …

Fifty years of Monte Carlo simulations for medical physics

DWO Rogers - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

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 …

GATE: a simulation toolkit for PET and SPECT

S Jan, G Santin, D Strul, S Staelens… - Physics in Medicine …, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
Monte Carlo simulation is an essential tool in emission tomography that can assist in the
design of new medical imaging devices, the optimization of acquisition protocols and the …

GATE V6: a major enhancement of the GATE simulation platform enabling modelling of CT and radiotherapy

S Jan, D Benoit, E Becheva, T Carlier… - Physics in Medicine …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

[图书][B] Handbook of radiotherapy physics: theory and practice

P Mayles, A Nahum, JC Rosenwald - 2007 - taylorfrancis.com
From background physics and biological models to the latest imaging and treatment
modalities, the Handbook of Radiotherapy Physics: Theory and Practice covers all …

TOPAS-nBio: an extension to the TOPAS simulation toolkit for cellular and sub-cellular radiobiology

J Schuemann, AL McNamara… - Radiation …, 2019 - meridian.allenpress.com
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 …

Accelerator beam data commissioning equipment and procedures: report of the TG‐106 of the Therapy Physics Committee of the AAPM

IJ Das, CW Cheng, RJ Watts, A Ahnesjö… - Medical …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
For commissioning a linear accelerator for clinical use, medical physicists are faced with
many challenges including the need for precision, a variety of testing methods, data …

[PDF][PDF] BEAMnrc users manual

DWO Rogers, B Walters, I Kawrakow - Nrc Report Pirs, 2009 - nrc-cnrc.github.io
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 PENELOPE‐based system for the automated Monte Carlo simulation of clinacs and voxelized geometries—application to far‐from‐axis fields

J Sempau, A Badal, L Brualla - Medical physics, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Two new codes, penEasy and penEasyLinac, which automate the Monte Carlo
simulation of Varian Clinacs of the 600, 1800, 2100, and 2300 series, together with their …