14 Mar
2010
It's been a while I haven't wrote anything in this "Posterous". My
head is quite full these days: I'm being a dad!, yes, my wife is
pregnant; I have no job for now, keep searching for a PhD position
somewhere; and I arrived in this chair, sitting and reading a paper
entitled VMC++, electron and photon Monte Carlo calculations optimized
for Radiation Treatment Planning.
I graduated from Physics. Oh yeah -- that was 5 years ago!. I've
played with Monte Carlo for a while. Now, holding this paper, I
couldn't understand what 'class II condensed history Monte Carlo
simulation'-beast is!.
I believe VMC++ is a cool work done by Iwan Kawrakaw. Well, before
this, my Grand Supervisor -- Fippel (he is the supervisor of my
supervisor) -- released a library on VMC based dose calculation
algorithm, called xVMC to be compared directly with other famous
method on dose calculation: Pencil Beam method!.
I'm quite surprised, five years ago I tried to submit a paper on
comparing two methods on dose calculation in inhomogeneous medium! --
and highlight the problem on the vicinity of two different mediums!
That is the main argument why VMC is considered "better" than Pencil
Beam: it's accuracy on "predicting" dose distribution in the vicinity
of two different medium.
I'll continue this post later.