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physics.med-ph2013★ 2 cited
Pre-treatment radiotherapy dose verification using Monte Carlo doselet modulation in a spherical phantom
Reid W Townson, Sergei Zavgorodni
Due to the increasing complexity of radiotherapy delivery, accurate dose verification has become an essential part of the clinical treatment process. The purpose of this work was t…
physics.med-ph2013★ 19 cited
Monitor backscatter factors for the Varian 21EX and TrueBeam linear accelerators: measurements and Monte Carlo modeling
Sergei Zavgorodni, Eyad Alhakeem, Reid Townson
Purpose/Objective: Backscattered radiation (BSR) into linac monitor chamber has to be accounted for in radiotherapy dose calculations. In Monte Carlo (MC) calculations, the BSR can…
physics.med-ph2013★ 40 cited
GPU-based Monte Carlo radiotherapy dose calculation using phase-space sources
Reid Townson, Xun Jia, Zhen Tian +3
A novel phase-space source implementation has been designed for GPU-based Monte Carlo dose calculation engines. Due to the parallelized nature of GPU hardware, it is essential to s…