The graphics processing unit (GPU) has emerged as a competitive platform for computing
massively parallel problems. Many computing applications in medical physics can be …

Recent developments in radiotherapy therapy demand high computation powers to solve
challenging problems in a timely fashion in a clinical environment. The graphics processing …

Purpose We report on the development of the open‐source cross‐platform radiation
treatment planning toolkit matRad and its comparison against validated treatment planning …

High radiation dose in computed tomography (CT) scans increases the lifetime risk of cancer
and has become a major clinical concern. Recently, iterative reconstruction algorithms with …

Purpose: Cone‐beam CT (CBCT) plays an important role in image guided radiation therapy
(IGRT). However, the large radiation dose from serial CBCT scans in most IGRT procedures …

Online adaptive radiation therapy (ART) promises the ability to deliver an optimal treatment
in response to daily patient anatomic variation. A major technical barrier for the clinical …

Accurate radiation dose calculation is essential for successful proton radiotherapy. Monte
Carlo (MC) simulation is considered to be the most accurate method. However, the long …

The x-ray imaging dose from serial cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) scans raises
a clinical concern in most image-guided radiation therapy procedures. It is the goal of this …

Monte Carlo (MC) simulation is commonly considered to be the most accurate dose
calculation method in radiotherapy. However, its efficiency still requires improvement for …

Magnetic resonance imaging–guided adaptive radiotherapy would make available the best
in anatomical and functional imaging during the course of radiation therapy. The possible …