Monte Carlo‐based treatment planning system calculation engine for microbeam radiation therapy

Abstract

The development of the first MC-based calculation engine for the future TPS devoted to MRT has been accomplished. This will constitute an essential tool for the future clinical trials on pets at the ESRF. The MC engine is able to calculate dose distributions in micrometer-sized bins in complex voxelized CT structures in a reasonable amount of time. Minimization of the computation time by using several approaches has led to timings that are adequate for pet radiotherapy at synchrotron facilities. The next step will consist in its integration into a user-friendly graphical front-end.

Minibeam radiation therapy for the management of osteosarcomas: A Monte Carlo study

“…Further details can be found elsewhere. 19,25,26 Particles were then transported through the chopper and the vertical slit; the vertical scanning of the beam was as well considered.…”

A Comparison between GATE and MCNPX monte carlo codes in simulation of medical linear accelerator

“…However, with respect to the development of computer technology and variance reduction techniques, the MC method is becoming a practical approach in dose calculations for three-dimensional (3D) conventional radiotherapy and it has been recently applied in conformal radiation therapy techniques such as intensity modulated radiation therapy, microbeam radiation therapy and proton beam therapy. [456]…”

Dose evaluation of Grid Therapy using a 6 MV flattening filter‐free (FFF) photon beam: A Monte Carlo study

“…PENELOPE enables the mixed simulation of photon, electron, and positron transport in a very wide energy range (from 100 eV to 1 GeV) and in complex material systems. This code has been largely used for dose assessment in spatially fractionated radiotherapy and it has been validated against experimental data . The penEasy general‐purpose main program for PENELOPE was used in this work …”