Monte Carlo in Radiotherapy

This book is an illustration of the use of Monte Carlo methods applied to solve specific problems in mathematics, engineering, physics, statistics, and science in general.

Modern cancer treatment relies on Monte Carlo simulations to help radiotherapists and clinical physicists better understand and compute radiation dose from imaging devices as well as exploit four-dimensional imaging data. With Monte Carlo-based treatment planning tools now available from commercial vendors, a complete transition to Monte Carlo-based dose calculation methods in radiotherapy could likely take place in the next decade.

Authors: Vassiliev, Oleg N.
Covers the foundations of both the radiation transport theory and Monte Carlo on an introductory level
Focuses on the fundamentals and explains the mathematical foundations and the underlying logic of Monte Carlo algorithms
Comprehensively covers all the classical as well as recently emerging topics important for medical physics applications
Presents most of the techniques as step-by-step algorithms, so that the reader will have ready-to-use recipes for a variety of problems

This book is a guide to the use of Monte Carlo techniques in radiation transport. This topic is of great interest for medical physicists. Praised as a "gold standard" for accurate radiotherapy dose calculations, Monte Carlo has stimulated a high level of research activity that has produced thousands of papers within the past few years.