IMRT 2018
Monte Carlo Dose Calculation
Fast Monte Carlo codes:
Virtual Source Model (VSM)
efficient (approximate) modelling of effects of beam modulating elements (transmission maps etc.) In the patient: variance reduction techniques, history repetition; optimized for voxel geometries; optimized for energy range typical in RT and material compositions in human tissue, …
see e.g. Fippel 1999, Med. Phys. 26(8)
Kawrakov and Fippel 2000, PMB 45(8)
ESTRO IMRT course 2017 Dose Calculation in Static and Rotational IMRT Madrid April 13th, 2017
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