The Monte Carlo code MCPTV--Monte Carlo dose calculation in radiation therapy with carbon ions.

Manfred Schmidt, Reinhold Mueller, Juergen Karg, Stefan Speer

Journal: Physics in medicine and biology 2010;55(13):3917-36

PMID: 20571213

Full Text on IOP Publishing Ltd. View on PubMed

Abstract

The Monte Carlo code MCPTV is presented. MCPTV is designed for dose calculation in treatment planning in radiation therapy with particles and especially carbon ions. MCPTV has a voxel-based concept and can perform a fast calculation of the dose distribution on patient CT data. Material and density information from CT are taken into account. Electromagnetic and nuclear interactions are implemented. Furthermore the algorithm gives information about the particle spectra and the energy deposition in each voxel. This can be used to calculate the relative biological effectiveness (RBE) for each voxel. Depth dose distributions are compared to experimental data giving good agreement. A clinical example is shown to demonstrate the capabilities of the MCPTV dose calculation.

Address: Strahlenklinik, Universitaetsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany. [email protected]

DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/55/13/023

Link outs

Free resources

Medical:

https://medlineplus.gov/radiationtherapy.html

Other Literature Sources:

https://www.lens.org/lens/search/patent/list?q=ref...

Subscription / membership required

Full Text Sources:

https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-9155/55/13/023

MeSH Terms: Algorithms, Carbon, Chordoma, Computer Simulation, Humans, Ions, Monte Carlo Method, Radiation, Radiotherapy, Radiotherapy Dosage, Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted, Skull Base, Software, Software Design, Time Factors, Tomography, X-Ray Computed