ARCHERRT - a GPU-based and photon-electron coupled Monte Carlo dose computing engine for radiation therapy: software development and application to helical tomotherapy.

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Using the graphical processing units (GPU) hardware technology, an extremely fast Monte Carlo (MC) code ARCHERRT is developed for radiation dose calculations in radiation therapy. This paper describes the detailed software development and testing for three clinical TomoTherapy® cases: the prostate, lung, and head & neck.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Med Phys

Title: Medical physics

Publisher: Wiley

ISSN (Electronic): 2473-4209

ISSN (Print): 0094-2405

Publication date (Electronic): Jul 2014

Volume: 41

Issue: 7

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[1 ] Nuclear Engineering Program, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180.

[2 ] Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706.

[3 ] Molecular Imaging, Radiotherapy and Oncology, Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium 1348.

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DOI: 10.1118/1.4884229

PMC ID: 4105974

PubMed ID: 24989378

SO-VID: a2daf9d4-2249-43e2-a7d8-12bb4f26ce12

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