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Monte Carlo Dose Calculation
Fast Monte Carlo codes:
Virtual Source Model (VSM)
efficient (approximate) modelling
of effects of beam modulating
elements (transmission maps etc.)
ESTRO IMRT course 2016
Dose Calculation in Static and Rotational IMRT
London April 7th, 2016
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In the patient: variance reduction
techniques, history repetition;
optimized for voxel geometries;
optimized for energy range typical
in RT and material compositions
in human tissue, …
see e.g. Fippel 1999, Med. Phys. 26(8)
Kawrakov and Fippel 2000, PMB 45(8)