Physics Bucharest 2017

MONTE CARLO SIMULATION • MC is in planning systems like Monaco • Currently being used for IMRT verification • Use BEAM to generate output from accelerator • Use DOSXYZ to apply this to the patient

Francescon et al. Dose verification of an IMRT treatment planning system with the BEAM EGS4-based Monte Carlo code. Med. Phys. 30:144-157 (2003). ESTRO physics course, June 2017