Fast Monte Carlo dose calculation in proton therapy

J Holmes, H Feng, L Zhang, MK Fix… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
This article examines the critical role of fast Monte Carlo (MC) dose calculations in
advancing proton therapy techniques, particularly in the context of increasing treatment …

Millisecond speed deep learning based proton dose calculation with Monte Carlo accuracy

O Pastor-Serrano, Z Perkó - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Next generation online and real-time adaptive radiotherapy workflows require
precise particle transport simulations in sub-second times, which is unfeasible with current …

Artificial intelligence for Monte Carlo simulation in medical physics

D Sarrut, A Etxebeste, E Muñoz, N Krah… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Monte Carlo simulation of particle tracking in matter is the reference simulation method in
the field of medical physics. It is heavily used in various applications such as 1) patient dose …

Proton pencil-beam scanning stereotactic body radiation therapy and hypofractionated radiation therapy for thoracic malignancies: patterns of practice survey and …

W Liu, H Feng, PA Taylor, M Kang, J Shen… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) and hypofractionation using pencil-beam
scanning (PBS) proton therapy (PBSPT) is an attractive option for thoracic malignancies …

TransDose: a transformer-based UNet model for fast and accurate dose calculation for MR-LINACs

F **ao, J Cai, X Zhou, L Zhou, T Song… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. To present a transformer-based UNet model (TransDose) for fast and accurate
dose calculation for magnetic resonance-linear accelerators (MR-LINACs). Approach. A 2D …

Learning the physics of particle transport via transformers

O Pastor-Serrano, Z Perkó - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on …, 2022 - ojs.aaai.org
Particle physics simulations are the cornerstone of nuclear engineering applications. Among
them radiotherapy (RT) is crucial for society, with 50% of cancer patients receiving radiation …

Sub‐second photon dose prediction via transformer neural networks

O Pastor‐Serrano, P Dong, C Huang, L **ng… - Medical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Fast dose calculation is critical for online and real‐time adaptive therapy
workflows. While modern physics‐based dose algorithms must compromise accuracy to …

Enabling non-isocentric dynamic trajectory radiotherapy by integration of dynamic table translations

G Guyer, S Mueller, C Koechli, D Frei… - Physics in Medicine …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. The purpose of this study is to develop a treatment planning process (TPP) for
non-isocentric dynamic trajectory radiotherapy (DTRT) using dynamic gantry rotation …

Deep learning‐based fast denoising of Monte Carlo dose calculation in carbon ion radiotherapy

X Zhang, H Zhang, J Wang, Y Ma, X Liu, Z Dai… - Medical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Plan verification is one of the important steps of quality assurance (QA) in
carbon ion radiotherapy. Conventional methods of plan verification are based on phantom …

Robust deep learning-based forward dose calculations for VMAT on the 1.5 T MR-linac

G Tsekas, GH Bol… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
In this work we present a framework for robust deep learning-based VMAT forward dose
calculations for the 1.5 T MR-linac. A convolutional neural network was trained on the dose …