Evaluation of ray tracing and Monte Carlo algorithms in dose ...

Dose calculation in treatment planning must account for tissue heterogeneity, especially for tumors within low-density lung tissues. While Monte Carlo (MC) ...

Conclusion: There is a significant range of discordance between MC and RT dose calculations for SBRT treated peripheral lung tumors. While variation is ...

Comparison of Ray Tracing and Monte Carlo Calculation Algorithms ...

Dose-volume histograms of the target and selected critical structures are evaluated. Results. The average target coverage of prescribed dose with MC algorithms ...

Comparison of Ray Tracing and Monte Carlo Algorithms for Spine ...

Purpose: This study attempts to evaluate Ray Tracing (RT) and Monte Carlo (MC) algorithm for CyberKnife treatments of spine lesions and determine whether MC ...

Evaluation of ray tracing and Monte Carlo algorithms in dose ...

Evaluation of ray tracing and Monte Carlo algorithms in dose calculation and clinical outcomes for robotic stereotactic body radiotherapy of lung cancers.

Dose Calculation Accuracy of the Monte Carlo Algorithm for ...

In each phantom irradiation, the Monte Carlo predictions resulted in gamma analysis comparisons >97%, using acceptance criteria of 3% dose and 3-mm distance to ...

Ray-Trace is Inferior to Monte Carlo Dose Calculation Algorithm for ...

Ray trace (effective path length method; EPL) is inferior to the Monte Carlo (MC) dose calculation algorithm when treating tumors at tissue interfaces of ...

Comparison of Ray Tracing and Monte Carlo Calculation Algorithms ...

Comparison of Ray Tracing and Monte Carlo Calculation Algorithms for Thoracic Spine Lesions Treated With CyberKnife-Based Stereotactic Body ...

Comparison of the accuracy of Monte Carlo and Ray Tracing dose ...

Single plan multiple brain targets (MBT) stereotactic radiosurgery dose difference between Monte Carlo (MC) and Ray Tracing (RT) algorithms has not been ...

Evaluation of Planned Dose Distributions by Monte Carlo (0.5 ...

To analyze and evaluate dose distribution between Ray Tracing (RT) and Monte Carlo (MC) algorithms of 0.5% uncertainty on a critical structure ...

(PDF) Comparison of Ray Tracing and Monte Carlo Calculation ...

Purpose This study attempts to evaluate Ray Tracing (RT) and Monte Carlo (MC) algorithms for CyberKnife treatments of spine lesions and ...

Comparison of dose distributions calculated by the cyberknife Monte ...

The Ray Tracing and the Monte Carlo dose calculation algorithms are available for MultiPlan treatment planning system. Many studies indicated ...

Comparison of Monte Carlo and Ray-Tracing Dose Calculation for ...

Purpose/Objective(s): To evaluate and to obtain dosimetric data of intensity modulated radiation therapy using helical tomother- ... Carlo algorithm available in ...

A Dosimetric study of Ray Tracing and Monte Carlo ... - IJSEAS

Purpose: To compare the dose distributions of Cyberknife Stereotactic Pituitary treatment plans when using the Ray Tracing (RT) vs the Monte Carlo (MC) Dose ...

Large-scale dosimetric assessment of Monte Carlo recalculated ...

Owing to its short computation time and simplicity, the Ray-Tracing algorithm (RAT) has long been used to calculate dose distributions for the CyberKnife ...

Evaluation of Planned Dose Distributions by Monte Carlo (0.5 ...

Purpose: To analyze and evaluate dose distribution between Ray Tracing (RT) and Monte Carlo (MC) algorithms of 0.5% uncertainty on a ...

Comparison of dose distributions calculated by the cyberknife Monte ...

The Ray Tracing and the Monte Carlo dose calculation algorithms are available for ... evaluated in terms of the target coverage, dose conformity, and dose ...

Monte Carlo and ray tracing algorithms in the cyberknife treatment ...

On subjecting the dose distributions from irradiated EBT2 films for validation of Monte Carlo calculation MC , over 96% of the pixels pass the gamma criteria of ...

Influence of smoothing algorithms in Monte Carlo dose calculations

The Monte Carlo doses were found to be lesser than the Ray tracing doses. The dose conformity index was above 4 for all the smoothing algorithms, while it was ...

AbstractID: 11290 Title: Clinical Implementation and Evaluation of ...

Conclusion: There can be significant differences between dose distributions calculated by Monte Carlo and Ray-Tracing algorithms, particularly for treatment ...