VERIQA RT MonteCarlo 3D
3D Dose Calculation with SciMoCa
Accurate. Fast. Automated.
Monte Carlo techniques are the gold standard for dose calculation in radiotherapy. VERIQA RT MonteCarlo 3D calculates dose using the well-known, clinically proven SciMoCa Monte Carlo algorithm. Its dose calculation and beam modelling do not require data from the LINAC or treatment planning system, thus allowing truly independent dose verification calculations. Calculation results are not only highly accurate, but also available in a few minutes.
As part of the VERIQA patient QA platform, VERIQA RT MonteCarlo 3D offers fully automated dose verification. By combining speed and accuracy, it can help you to enhance safety as well as increase efficiency in daily patient QA.
Why use RT MonteCarlo 3D?
„VERIQA is a powerful QA platform which easily enabled us to implement a fully automated secondary Monte Carlo dose calculation for every of our patients.
The excellent accuracy and reliability of RT MonteCarlo 3D allowed us to reduce the amount of plan-specific phantom measurement by 75% - without compromising the quality and safety of our patient treatment.”
Dr. Bernhard Rhein, Medical Physicist, Heidelberg University Hospital
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Clinical References
VERIQA RT MonteCarlo 3D uses the SciMoCa dose engine, which is based on the well-established EGSnrc/XVMC/VMC++ code family. The accuracy and reliability of the SciMoCa Monte Carlo algorithm have been validated in numerous clinical studies and publications:
- Towards real-time Monte Carlo dose computation
ESTRO 2019 Poster: M.Alber et.al. Department of Radiation Oncology, Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg; Scientific RT - Validation of the Acuros XB dose calculation algorithm versus Monte Carlo for clinical treatment plans
https://aapm.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/mp.13053#.W03tYU-Jjk4.email - A virtual photon source model of an Elekta linear accelerator with integrated mini MLC for Monte Carlo based IMRT dose calculation
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17634643/ - A virtual source model of electron contamination of a therapeutic photon beam
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19926911/