Abstract The implementation of Monte Carlo dose calculation algorithms in clinical
radiotherapy treatment planning systems has been anticipated for many years. Despite a …

Intensity‐modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) is a complex procedure that involves the
delivery of complex intensity patterns from various gantry angles. Due to the complexity of …

Abstract The GATE Monte Carlo simulation platform based on the Geant4 toolkit has now
become a diffused tool for simulating PET and SPECT imaging devices. In this paper, we …

Radiation therapy has witnessed a plethora of innovations and developments in the past 15
years. Since the introduction of computed tomography for treatment planning there has been …

A superposition/convolution GPU‐accelerated dose computation algorithm (the Calculator)
has been recently incorporated into commercial software. The algorithm requires validation …

Intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) treatment plan verification by comparison with
measured data requires having access to the linear accelerator and is time consuming. In …

An accurate and fast radiation dose calculation is essential for successful radiation
radiotherapy. The aim of this study was to implement a new graphic processing unit (GPU) …

Vero4DRT is an innovative image‐guided radiotherapy system employing a C‐band X‐ray
head with gimbal mechanics. The purposes of this study were to propose specific MC …

A 400 MeV/u carbon ion beam incident on a water phantom was simulated with
GATE/Geant4 to calculate the energy spectra of 12 C and its fragments at various depths …

In computed tomography (CT), scattering causes server quality degradation of the
reconstructed CT images by introducing streaks and cupping artifacts which reduce the …