Fifty years of Monte Carlo simulations for medical physics

• Published in: Physics in medicine & biology Vol. 51; no. 13; pp. R287 - R301
• Main Author: Rogers, D W O
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England IOP Publishing 07.07.2006
• Subjects: Animals; Body Burden; Computer Simulation; Health Physics - methods; Health Physics - trends; Humans; Models, Biological; Models, Statistical; Monte Carlo Method; Radiometry - methods; Radiometry - trends; Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted - methods; Relative Biological Effectiveness

Monte Carlo techniques have become ubiquitous in medical physics over the last 50 years with a doubling of papers on the subject every 5 years between the first PMB paper in 1967 and 2000 when the numbers levelled off. While recognizing the many other roles that Monte Carlo techniques have played in...