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 …

Monte Carlo methods for device simulations in radiation therapy

H Park, H Paganetti, J Schuemann… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Monte Carlo (MC) simulations play an important role in radiotherapy, especially as a method
to evaluate physical properties that are either impossible or difficult to measure. For …

DPM, a fast, accurate Monte Carlo code optimized for photon and electron radiotherapy treatment planning dose calculations

J Sempau, SJ Wilderman… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2000 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract A new Monte Carlo (MC) algorithm, thedose planning method'(DPM), and its
associated computer program for simulating the transport of electrons and photons in …

Monte Carlo simulation of electron beams from an accelerator head using PENELOPE

J Sempau, A Sánchez-Reyes, F Salvat… - Physics in Medicine …, 2001 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Monte Carlo code PENELOPE has been used to simulate electron beams from
a Siemens Mevatron KDS linac with nominal energies of 6, 12 and 18 MeV. Owing to its …

GPU-based fast Monte Carlo simulation for radiotherapy dose calculation

X Jia, X Gu, YJ Graves, M Folkerts… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Monte Carlo (MC) simulation is commonly considered to be the most accurate dose
calculation method in radiotherapy. However, its efficiency still requires improvement for …

Comparison of dose calculation algorithms in phantoms with lung equivalent heterogeneities under conditions of lateral electronic disequilibrium: dose calculation …

P Carrasco, N Jornet, MA Duch, L Weber… - Medical …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
An extensive set of benchmark measurement of PDDs and beam profiles was performed in a
heterogeneous layer phantom, including a lung equivalent heterogeneity, by means of …

150-250 MeV electron beams in radiation therapy

C DesRosiers, V Moskvin, AF Bielajew… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2000 - iopscience.iop.org
High-energy electron beams in the range 150-250 MeV are studied to evaluate the
feasibility for radiotherapy. Monte Carlo simulation results from the PENELOPE code are …

On the condensed history technique for electron transport

I Kawrakow, AF Bielajew - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics …, 1998 - Elsevier
In this report we discuss the theory of the “condensed history technique”, an approximate
solution to the Boltzmann transport equation that sums the effect of up to thousands of …

Development of a GPU-based Monte Carlo dose calculation code for coupled electron–photon transport

X Jia, X Gu, J Sempau, D Choi… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Monte Carlo simulation is the most accurate method for absorbed dose calculations in
radiotherapy. Its efficiency still requires improvement for routine clinical applications …

[PDF][PDF] The EGSnrc code system

I Kawrakow, DWO Rogers - NRC Report PIRS-701, NRC, Ottawa, 2000 - nrc-cnrc.github.io
Sixth printing: May 2011 A long time has passed since the last update to this document.
Although no fundamental changes have been made to the system, there have been a …