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Radiation Protection Dosimetry 2005 115(1-4):517-521; doi:10.1093/rpd/nci027
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Orange, a new, fast dose engine for radiotherapy treatment planning

Steven C. van der Marck* and Alfred Hogenbirk

Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group NRG, P.O. Box 25, 1755 ZG Petten, the Netherlands

* Corresponding author: vandermarck{at}nrg-nl.com

A new Monte Carlo dose engine is introduced under the name of ORANGE. It is a general purpose and flexible program, because it is based on MCNP, and it is fast, because a fast dose algorithm has been added to it. In this paper it is shown that the dose results for photons and electrons are accurate within 2%, and that ORANGE can calculate accurate three-dimensional dose distributions in a 30 x 30 x 30 cm3 phantom with 603 voxels within a quarter of an hour on present day PCs, even before employing variance reduction techniques.


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