ESTRO course Dose Modelling and Verification 2017

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VMC++ accuracy and speed

 Sub-percent agreement with EGSnrc

 Is about 100 times faster than BEAMnrc for linac head simulations

 Is 50-150 times faster than EGS4/PRESTA for electron and photon beam simulations in the patient geometry for comparable accuracy.

 CPU times for in-patient simulations (10x10 beam, 5 mm voxels, 2% statistical uncertainty): o ~30 seconds for electrons

Warsaw 2017