Since publication of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Task Group
No. 43 Report in 1995 (TG‐43), both the utilization of permanent source implantation and …

Brachytherapy is a mature treatment modality that has benefited from technological
advances. Treatment planning has advanced from simple lookup tables to complex …

The charge of Task Group 186 (TG‐186) is to provide guidance for early adopters of model‐
based dose calculation algorithms (MBDCAs) for brachytherapy (BT) dose calculations to …

This study presents the results of EGSnrc Monte Carlo calculations of the dose distribution
surrounding a high dose rate brachytherapy source and 14 high dose rate and pulsed dose …

Purpose: In order to facilitate a smooth transition for brachytherapy dose calculations from
the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Task Group No. 43 (TG‐43) …

Following literature contributions delineating the deficiencies introduced by the
approximations of conventional brachytherapy dosimetry, different model-based dosimetry …

Purpose A joint working group was created by the American Association of Physicists in
Medicine (AAPM), the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO), and the …

Despite being considered the gold standard for brachytherapy dosimetry, Monte Carlo (MC)
has yet to be implemented into a software for brachytherapy treatment planning. The …

The current standard for brachytherapy dose calculations is based on the AAPM TG‐43
formalism. Simplifications used in the TG‐43 formalism have been challenged by many …

Abstract Purpose To validate the Advanced Collapsed cone Engine (ACE) dose calculation
engine of Oncentra Brachy (OcB) treatment planning system using an 192 Ir source …