ArticleJournal of applied clinical medical physics2019
Secondary monitor unit calculations for VMAT using parallelized Monte Carlo simulations.
Article in Journal of applied clinical medical physics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Monitor unit verification for Varian TrueBeam VMAT plans using Monte Carlo calculations and phase space data.Journal of applied clinical medical physics · 2023Article
- Is a weekly qualitative picket fence test sufficient? A proposed alternate EPID-based weekly MLC QA program.Journal of applied clinical medical physics · 2022Article
- Validation of a secondary dose check tool against Monte Carlo and analytical clinical dose calculation algorithms in VMAT.Journal of applied clinical medical physics · 2021Article
- Monte Carlo Simulation for the Radixact™ Tomotherapy Linac Using EGSnrc.Journal of medical physicsArticle
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Abstract
We have developed a fast and accurate in-house Monte Carlo (MC) secondary monitor unit (MU) check method, based on the EGSnrc system, for independent verification of volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) treatment planning system dose calculations, in accordance with TG-114 recommendations. For a VMAT treatment plan created for a Varian Trilogy linac, DICOM information was exported from Eclipse. An open-source platform was used to generate input files for dose calculations using the EGSnrc framework. The full VMAT plan simulation employed 10
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