… IMRT treatments of sinus region tumors: comparison of Monte Carlo calculations with treatment planning system calculations and ion chamber measurements

LE Court, L Jahnke, D Chin, J Song… - … & treatment, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
region calculated using the TPS, Monte Carlo. We also used patient-specific IMRT QA ion
chamber measurements to correct the absolute doses calculated using TPS and compared

… IMRT Treatments of Sinus Region Tumors: Comparison of Monte Carlo Calculations with Treatment Planning System Calculations and Ion Chamber Measurements

D Chin, L Jahnke, R Cormack, R Tishler… - Medical …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
… of inhomogeneities in the sinus region is adequately accounted … ion chamber results indicate
a small systematic uncertainty in the doses calculated using the treatment planning system

Comparison of dose–volume histograms of IMRT treatment plans for ethmoid sinus cancer computed by advanced treatment planning systems including Monte Carlo

L Paelinck, B De Smedt, N Reynaert, M Coghe… - Radiotherapy and …, 2006 - Elsevier
… the critical organs calculated by the treatment planning system, … are commissioned using
the same measured set of beam … , type 60003) and an ionisation chamber (PTW-Freiburg, type …

Clinical implementation of full Monte Carlo dose calculation in proton beam therapy

H Paganetti, H Jiang, K Parodi… - Physics in Medicine …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
… to support routine treatment planning and delivery. The … mm is used while for the ionization
chamber we use 0.1 mm to … P 2001a Monte Carlo simulation of a dynamic MLC based on a …

Evaluation of ion chamber dependent correction factors for ionisation chamber dosimetry in proton beams using a Monte Carlo method

H Palmans, F Verhaegen - 1995 - osti.gov
… world created by the treatment planning software. Current high-… issues regarding dynamic
conformal therapy have not been … to plan and deliver beam intensity modulated radiotherapy

Underdosing of the maxillary sinus for small fields used in newer radiotherapy techniques: Comparison of thermoluminescent dosimeter and Monte Carlo data

N Singh, SD Sharma, NK Painuly… - Journal of cancer …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
… fields such as intensity-modulated radiotherapy or other … is more pronounced when the
treatment planning system (TPS) … TLD measurements and MC simulations and a comparison of …

Monte Carlo evaluation of a treatment planning system for helical tomotherapy in an anthropomorphic heterogeneous phantom and for clinical treatment plans

YL Zhao, M Mackenzie, C Kirkby, BG Fallone - Medical physics, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Ion chamber measurements in the CIRS phantom suggested … simulation, MLC
modeling∕dynamic intensity modulation, and … Our institution's in-house IMRT protocol constraints …

Absolute dose calculations for Monte Carlo simulations of radiotherapy beams

IA Popescu, CP Shaw, SF Zavgorodni… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
… , including a dynamic 7-field IMRT plan simulated on the CT … experimental measurements
using ionization chambers and … commercial IMRT Monte Carlo treatment planning system at 6 …

Comparison of IMRT and VMAT plans with different energy levels using Monte-Carlo algorithm for prostate cancer

C Onal, G Arslan, C Parlak, S Sonmez - Japanese journal of radiology, 2014 - Springer
treatment planning system with Monte Carlo algorithm. … dosimetric comparisons of VMAT
and 7-field IMRT with dynamic … the treatment plan was performed using a 2D ion chamber array …

Quantitative assessment of the accuracy of dose calculation using pencil beam and Monte Carlo algorithms and requirements for clinical quality assurance

I Ali, S Ahmad - Medical Dosimetry, 2013 - Elsevier
… quantitatively with measurement using ionization chamber and … iPlan treatment planning
system from BrainLAB. The dose … This change was proportional to the dose and the dynamic