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ArticlePhysics in medicine and biology2024

TOPAS simulation of photoneutrons in radiotherapy: accuracy and speed with variance reduction.

J Ramos-Mendez, Catalan R Ortiz, J Schuemann, H Paganetti, B Faddegon

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Article in Physics in medicine and biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. An interface tool to parametrize treatment plans for the TrueBeam radiotherapy system into TOPAS parameter control files for Monte Carlo simulation.Physica medica : PM : an international journal devoted to the applications of physics to medicine and biology : official journal of the Italian Association of Biomedical Physics (AIFB) · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

J Ramos-MendezDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco CA, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-8106-5142
Catalan R OrtizDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco CA, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-4628-8121
J SchuemannDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Physics Division, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-7554-8818
H PaganettiDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Physics Division, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, United States of America.
B FaddegonDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco CA, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-4573-1582
University of California, San Francisco · USMassachusetts General Hospital · US

Funding

The TOPAS Tool for Particle Simulation, a Monte Carlo Simulation Tool for Physics, Biology and Clinical ResearchU24CA215123 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI FADDEGON, BRUCE · 2018 to 2022
$4.2M
NCI NIH HHS U24 CA215123
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Monte Carlo MethodNeutronsParticle AcceleratorsPhotonsComputer SimulationHumansRadiotherapyRadiotherapy DosageReproducibility of ResultsTime FactorslinacMonte CarloneutronTOPASvariance reductionx-ray

Identifiers

PMID38657630
PMCPMC467037
OpenAlexW4395116367

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Registered trials

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