ESTRO course Dose Modelling and Verification 2017

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Monte Carlo in commercial TPS

 Elekta MONACO o First commercial Monte Carlo treatment planning for electron beams o Implementation of Kawrakow’s VMC++ Monte Carlo dose calculation algorithm (2000) o Handles electron beams from all clinical linacs

 Varian Eclipse eMC 2004 o Based on Neuenschwander’s MMC dose calculation algorithm (1992) o Handles electron beams from Varian linacs only

Warsaw 2017