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VMC++
VMC was developed by I. Kawrakow, M. Fippel and K. Friedrich
with K. Ulm at the U of Leipzig, 1996
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VMC originally only for electrons
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Extended later by M.Fippel to photons - xVMC
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Re-implemented in C++ by I. Kawrakow at NRC - VMC++
Recent work implements a series of additional VRTs for photons
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Exact MS theory developed at NRC
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Boundary crossing algorithm (BCA) allowing multi-voxel CH steps
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Optimization of sampling algorithms
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STOPS
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Quasi-random sequences
Generated with emphasis on filling the multidimensional space of
interest in as uniform a way as possible
Used in Elekta/Nucletron Oncentra MasterPlan and Elekta/CMS XiO eMC
Utrecht 2016
VRT = Variance Reduction Techniques