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Küng, Reto; Mueller, Silvan; Löbner, Hannes Anton; Frei, Daniel; Volken, Werner; Aebersold, Daniel M.; Stampanoni, Marco F M; Fix, Michael K.; Manser, Peter (2021). TriB-RT: simultaneous optimization of photon, electron and proton beams. Physics in medicine and biology, 66(4), 045006. Institute of Physics Publishing IOP 10.1088/1361-6560/ab936f

Bertholet, Jenny; Mackeprang, Paul-Henry; Müller, Silvan Andreas; Volken, Werner; Frei, Daniel; Eliçin, Olgun; Aebersold, Daniel Matthias; Fix, Michael; Manser, Peter (2021). Organ-at-risk sparing in head and neck radiotherapy with dynamic trajectory radiotherapy (Unpublished). In: ESTRO annual meeting. Madrid Spain. 27.08. - 31.08.2021.

Küng, R.; Guyer, G.; Volken, W.; Frei, D.; Stabel, F; Stampanoni, M F M; Manser, Peter; Fix, M K (2020). Development of an extended Macro Monte Carlo method for efficient and accurate dose calculation in magnetic fields. Medical physics, 47(12), pp. 6519-6530. American Association of Physicists in Medicine AAPM 10.1002/mp.14542

Schmidhalter, Daniel; Henzen, Dominik; Herrmann, Evelyn; Volken, Werner; Terribilini, Dario; Frei, Daniel; Mackeprang, Paul-Henry; Ermis, Ekin; Hemmatazad, Hossein; Honegger, Jonas; Haas, Benjamin; Fix, Michael; Manser, Peter (28 November 2020). Frameless workflow for radiosurgery of arteriovenous malformations - A new software prototype (Unpublished). In: ESTRO Annual Meeting.

Fix, Michael; Müller, Silvan Andreas; Frei, Daniel; Volken, Werner; Terribilini, Dario; Frauchiger, Daniel; Joosten, Andreas; Henzen, Dominik; Herrmann, Evelyn; Aebersold, Daniel; Manser, Peter (28 November 2020). Treatment plan comparisons between dynamic trajectory radiotherapy and HyperArc (Unpublished). In: ESTRO Annual Meeting.

Fix, M. K.; Mueller, S.; Volken, W.; Terribilini, D.; Frei, D.; Eliçin, O.; Aebersold, D. M.; Manser, P. (24 October 2020). Dosimetric Comparison of Dynamic Trajectory Radiotherapy, HyperArc and VMAT Treatment Plans. International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, 108(3S), e295-e295. Elsevier 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2020.07.705

Fix, M. K.; Mueller, S.; Volken, W.; Terribilini, D.; Frei, D.; Eliçin, O.; Aebersold, D. M.; Manser, P. (24 October 2020). Comparison of Treatment Plan Robustness Between Dynamic Trajectory Radiotherapy and VMAT. International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, 108(3), e330-e331. 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2020.07.789

Manser, P.; Mueller, S.; Guyer, G.; Koechli, C.; Volken, W.; Bertholet, J.; Aebersold, D. M.; Fix, M. K. (24 October 2020). Advanced Dynamic Trajectory Radiotherapy Using Table Translations and Rotations. International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, 108(3), e335. Elsevier 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2020.07.801

Küng, R.; Guyer, G.; Volken, W.; Frei, D.; Stabel, F.; Stampanoni, P.; Manser, P.; Fix, M. (11 July 2020). Enabling Fast and Accurate Dose Calculation in Magnetic Fields Using Macro Monte Carlo (Unpublished). In: AAPM Annual Meeting.

Küng, R.; Löbner, H.; Müller, S.; Frei, D.; Volken, W.; Aebersold, D.; Stampanoni, M.F.M.; Fix, M.; Manser, P. (11 July 2020). Monte Carlo Based Treatment Plan Optimization for Intensity Modulated Proton Therapy (Unpublished). In: AAPM Annual Meeting.

Küng, R.; Müller, S.; Löbner, H.; Frei, D.; Volken, W.; Aebersold, D.; Stampanon, M.F.M.; Fix, M.; Manser, P. (11 July 2020). Development of a Simultaneous Optimization Process for Photon, Electron and Proton Beams (TriB-RT (Unpublished). In: AAPM Annual Meeting.

Tessarini, S.; Fix, M.; Volken, W.; Frei, D.; Manser, P. (11 July 2020). Monte Carlo Simulation of Laboratory X-Ray Grating Interferometry Setups (Unpublished). In: AAPM Annual Meeting.

Löbner, H.; Frei, D.; Volken, W.; Müller, S.; Aebersold, D.; Stampanoni, M.F.M.; Manser, P. (11 July 2020). Development of a Framework for Monte Carlo Dose Calculation of Intensity Modulated Proton Plans (Unpublished). In: AAPM Annual Meeting.

Guyer, Gian Mauro Carlo; Küng, Reto; Volken, Werner; Stampanoni, Marco; Manser, Peter; Fix, Michael (December 2019). Influence of magnetic field transport parameters on accuracy and efficiency of electron transport in EGSnrc. Strahlentherapie und Onkologie, 195(12), p. 1131. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer

Manser, Peter; Müller, Silvan Andreas; Frei, Daniel; Volken, Werner; Terribilini, Dario; Terribilini, Dario; Frauchiger, Daniel; Joosten, Andreas; Joosten, Andreas; Henzen, Dominik; Herrmann, Evelyn; Aebersold, Daniel; Fix, Michael (December 2019). Dynamic trajectory radiotherapy versus HyperArc: Treatment plan comparisons for tumors in the brain. Strahlentherapie und Onkologie, 195(12), pp. 1131-132. Springer

Mackeprang, Paul-Henry; Vuong, D; Volken, Werner; Henzen, Dominik; Schmidhalter, Daniel; Malthaner, Marco; Müller, Silvan Andreas; Frei, Daniel; Kilby, W; Aebersold, Daniel; Fix, Michael; Manser, Peter (2019). Benchmarking Monte-Carlo dose calculation for MLC CyberKnife treatments. Radiation oncology, 14(1), p. 172. BioMed Central 10.1186/s13014-019-1370-5

Küng, Reto; Frei, Daniel; Volken, Werner; Stuermlin, Fabian; Stampanoni, Marco F M; Aebersold, Daniel M.; Manser, Peter; Fix, Michael K. (2019). Adaptive step size algorithm to increase efficiency of proton macro Monte Carlo dose calculation. Radiation oncology, 14(1), p. 165. BioMed Central 10.1186/s13014-019-1362-5

Manser, Peter; Frauchiger, Daniel; Frei, Daniel; Volken, Werner; Terribilini, Dario; Fix, Michael (2019). Dose calculation of dynamic trajectory radiotherapy using Monte Carlo. Zeitschrift für medizinische Physik, 29(1), pp. 31-38. Elsevier 10.1016/j.zemedi.2018.03.002

Schmidhalter, Daniel; Henzen, Dominik; Herrmann, Evelyn; Volken, Werner; Mackeprang, Paul-Henry; Ermis, Ekin; Hemmatazad, Hossein; Honegger, Jonas; Haas, Benjamin; Fix, Michael; Manser, Peter (2019). Evaluation of a new software prototype for frameless radiosurgery of arteriovenous malformations. Radiation oncology, 14(1), pp. 1-13. BioMed Central 10.1186/s13014-019-1422-x

Volken, Werner; Zulliger, M A; Koller, B; Manser, Peter; Fix, Michael (2018). Investigation on the resolution of a micro cone beam CT scanner scintillating detector using Monte Carlo methods. Physica medica, 53, pp. 17-24. Elsevier 10.1016/j.ejmp.2018.08.002

Fix, Michael K.; Frei, Daniel; Volken, Werner; Terribilini, Dario; Müller, Silvan Andreas; Eliçin, Olgun; Hemmatazad, Hossein; Aebersold, Daniel M.; Manser, Peter (2018). Part 1: Optimization and evaluation of dynamic trajectory radiotherapy. Medical physics, 45(9), pp. 4201-4212. American Association of Physicists in Medicine AAPM 10.1002/mp.13086

Mueller, S; Manser, P.; Volken, W.; Frei, D.; Kueng, R; Herrmann, E.; Eliçin, O.; Aebersold, D. M.; Stampanoni, M F M; Fix, M. K. (2018). Part 2: Dynamic mixed beam radiotherapy (DYMBER): Photon dynamic trajectories combined with modulated electron beams. Medical physics, 45(9), pp. 4213-4226. American Association of Physicists in Medicine AAPM 10.1002/mp.13085

Henzen, Dominik; Schmidhalter, Daniel; Zanella, Claudia Christina; Volken, Werner; Mackeprang, Paul-Henry; Malthaner, Marco; Fix, Michael; Manser, Peter (2018). Evaluation of clinically applied treatment beams with respect to bunker shielding parameters for a Cyberknife M6. Journal of applied clinical medical physics, 19(1), pp. 243-249. American Association of Physicists in Medicine 10.1002/acm2.12215

Mackeprang, Paul-Henry; Vuong, D; Volken, Werner; Henzen, Dominik; Schmidhalter, Daniel; Malthaner, Marco; Mueller, S; Frei, Daniel; Stampanoni, M F M; Dal Pra, Alan; Aebersold, Daniel; Fix, Michael; Manser, Peter (2018). Independent Monte-Carlo dose calculation for MLC based CyberKnife radiotherapy. Physics in medicine and biology, 63(1), 015015. Institute of Physics Publishing IOP 10.1088/1361-6560/aa97f8

Mackeprang, Paul-Henry; Vuong, D.; Volken, Werner; Henzen, Dominik; Schmidhalter, Daniel; Malthaner, Marco; Müller, Silvan Andreas; Frei, Daniel; Aebersold, Daniel; Fix, Michael; Manser, Peter (2018). EP-1842: Benchmarking of Monte Carlo dose calculation for MLC based CyberKnife Radiotherapy. Radiotherapy and oncology, 127, S994-S995. Elsevier 10.1016/S0167-8140(18)32151-0

Müller, Silvan Andreas; Manser, Peter; Volken, Werner; Frei, Daniel; Aebersold, Daniel; Stampanoni, M.F.M.; Fix, Michael (2018). EP-1931: Suitability of dynamic trajectory mixed beam radiotherapy for head and neck and brain treatments. Radiotherapy and oncology, 127, S1049-S1050. Elsevier 10.1016/S0167-8140(18)32240-0

Fix, Michael; Frei, Daniel; Volken, Werner; Terribilini, Dario; Aebersold, Daniel; Manser, Peter (2018). Development of a multi criteria optimization framework for dynamic trajectory radiotherapy (Unpublished). In: AAPM Annual Meeting.

Joosten, Andreas; Müller, Silvan Andreas; Henzen, Dominik; Volken, Werner; Frei, Daniel; Aebersold, Daniel; Manser, Peter; Fix, Michael (2018). A dosimetric evaluation of different levels of energy and intensity modulation for inversely planned multi-field MERT. Biomedical physics & engineering express, 4(4), 045003. IOP Publishing 10.1088/2057-1976/aabe40

Manser, Peter; Peter, Silvia; Volken, Werner; Zulliger, Martin A; Laib, Andres; Koller, Bruno; Fix, Michael (2017). Implementation and application of a Monte Carlo model for an in vivo micro computed tomography system. Physica medica, 44, pp. 34-41. Elsevier 10.1016/j.ejmp.2017.11.005

Terribilini, Dario; Vitzthum, Veronika; Volken, Werner; Frei, Daniel; Lössl, Kristina; van Veelen, Bob; Manser, Peter; Fix, Michael (2017). Performance evaluation of a collapsed cone dose calculation algorithm for HDR Ir-192 of APBI treatments. Medical physics, 44(10), pp. 5475-5485. American Association of Physicists in Medicine AAPM 10.1002/mp.12490

Ernst, Marina; Manser, Peter; Dula, Karl; Volken, Werner; Stampanoni, Marco; Fix, Michael (2017). TLD measurements and Monte Carlo calculations of head and neck organ and effective doses for Cone Beam Computed Tomography using 3D Accuitomo 170. Dento maxillo facial radiology, 46(7), p. 20170047. British Institute of Radiology 10.1259/dmfr.20170047

Mueller, S; Fix, Michael; Joosten, Andreas; Henzen, Dominik; Frei, Daniel; Volken, Werner; Küng, Reto; Aebersold, Daniel; Stampanoni, M F M; Manser, Peter (2017). Simultaneous optimization of photons and electrons for mixed beam radiotherapy. Physics in medicine and biology, 62(14), pp. 5840-5860. Institute of Physics Publishing IOP 10.1088/1361-6560/aa70c5

Eliçin, Olgun; Terribilini, Dario; Shelan, Mohamed; Volken, Werner; Mathier, Etienne; Dal Pra, Alan; Aebersold, Daniel; Fix, Michael; Manser, Peter (2017). Primary tumor volume delineation in head and neck cancer: missing the tip of the iceberg? Radiation oncology, 12(1), p. 102. BioMed Central 10.1186/s13014-017-0838-4

Mackeprang, Paul-Henry; Volken, Werner; Terribilini, Dario; Frauchiger, Daniel; Klippel, Norbert; Zaugg, Kathrin; Aebersold, Daniel; Fix, Michael; Manser, Peter (June 2016). SU-F-T-412: Spatiotemporal Distribution of Dose Rates in VMAT Plans. Medical physics, 43(6), p. 3558. American Association of Physicists in Medicine AAPM 10.1118/1.4956597

Fix, Michael; Frei, Daniel; Volken, Werner; Terribilini, Dario; Aebersold, Daniel; Manser, Peter (June 2016). TH-EF-BRB-02: Feasibility of Optimization for Dynamic Trajectory Radiotherapy. Medical physics, 43(6), p. 3894. American Association of Physicists in Medicine AAPM 10.1118/1.4958248

Mueller, S; Joosten, Andreas; Fix, Michael; Henzen, Dominik; Volken, Werner; Frei, Daniel; Stampanoni, Mfm; Manser, Peter (June 2016). SU-F-T-89: Investigation of Simultaneous Optimization of Photon and Electron Apertures for Mixed Beam Radiotherapy Based On An Academic Case. Medical physics, 43(6), p. 3482. American Association of Physicists in Medicine AAPM 10.1118/1.4956225

Henzen, Dominik; Zanella do Amaral Campos, Pedro Paulo; Schmidhalter, Daniel; Volken, Werner; Mackeprang, Paul-Henry; Malthaner, Marco; Fix, Michael; Manser, Peter (June 2016). TH-AB-201-05: Determining the Direction Distribution of the Primary Radiation for a Cyberknife-M6. Medical physics, 43(6), p. 3850. American Association of Physicists in Medicine AAPM 10.1118/1.4958033

Mackeprang, Paul-Henry; Volken, Werner; Terribilini, Dario; Frauchiger, Daniel; Zaugg, Kathrin; Aebersold, Daniel; Fix, Michael; Manser, Peter (2016). Assessing dose rate distributions in VMAT plans. Physics in medicine and biology, 61(8), pp. 3208-3221. Institute of Physics Publishing IOP 10.1088/0031-9155/61/8/3208

Fix, Michael; Volken, Werner; Frei, Daniel; Terribilini, Dario; Aebersold, Daniel; Manser, Peter (2016). Assessment tool to quantify and visualize treatment plan robustness regarding patient setup. Radiotherapy and oncology, 118, S41. Elsevier 10.1016/S0167-8140(16)30084-6

Fix, Michael; Frei, Daniel; Volken, Werner; Terribilini, Dario; Manser, Peter (2016). EP-1635: Volumetric modulated arc therapy optimization including dynamic collimator rotation. Radiotherapy and oncology, 119, S763. Elsevier 10.1016/S0167-8140(16)32886-9

Henzen, Dominik; Manser, Peter; Frei, Daniel; Volken, Werner; Neuenschwander, H; Born, Ernst Johann; Joosten, Andreas; Lössl, Kristina; Aebersold, Daniel; Chatelain, Cécile; Stampanoni, M F M; Fix, Michael (2014). Beamlet based direct aperture optimization for MERT using a photon MLC. Medical physics, 41(12), p. 121711. American Association of Physicists in Medicine AAPM 10.1118/1.4901638

Peter, Silvia; Modregger, Peter; Fix, Michael; Volken, Werner; Frei, Daniel; Manser, Peter; Stampanoni, Marco (2014). Combining Monte Carlo methods with coherent wave optics for the simulation of phase-sensitive X-ray imaging. Journal of synchrotron radiation, 21(Pt 3), pp. 613-622. Blackwell Publishing 10.1107/S1600577514000952

Henzen, Dominik; Manser, Peter; Frei, Daniel; Volken, Werner; Neuenschwander, H; Born, Ernst Johann; Lössl, Kristina; Aebersold, Daniel; Stampanoni, M F M; Fix, Michael (2014). Forward treatment planning for modulated electron radiotherapy (MERT) employing Monte Carlo methods. Medical physics, 41(3), 031712. American Association of Physicists in Medicine AAPM 10.1118/1.4866227

Henzen, Dominik; Manser, Peter; Frei, Daniel; Volken, Werner; Neuenschwander, H; Born, Ernst Johann; Vetterli, Daniel; Chatelain, Cécile; Stampanoni, M F M; Fix, Michael (2014). Monte Carlo based beam model using a photon MLC for modulated electron radiotherapy. Medical physics, 41(2), 021714. American Association of Physicists in Medicine AAPM 10.1118/1.4861711

Fix, Michael; Cygler, Joanna; Frei, Daniel; Volken, Werner; Neuenschwander, Hans; Born, Ernst J; Manser, Peter (2013). Generalized eMC implementation for Monte Carlo dose calculation of electron beams from different machine types. Physics in medicine and biology, 58(9), pp. 2841-59. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing IOP 10.1088/0031-9155/58/9/2841

Fix, Michael K; Frei, Daniel; Volken, Werner; Born, Ernst J; Aebersold, Daniel M; Manser, Peter (2013). Macro Monte Carlo for dose calculation of proton beams. Physics in medicine and biology, 58(7), pp. 2027-44. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing IOP 10.1088/0031-9155/58/7/2027

Fix, Michael K; Volken, Werner; Frei, Daniel; Frauchiger, Daniel; Born, Ernst J; Manser, Peter (2011). Monte Carlo implementation, validation, and characterization of a 120 leaf MLC. Medical physics, 38(10), pp. 5311-20. College Park, Md.: American Association of Physicists in Medicine AAPM 10.1118/1.3626485

Magaddino, Vera; Manser, Peter; Frei, Daniel; Volken, Werner; Schmidhalter, Daniel; Hirschi, Lukas; Fix, Michael K (2011). Validation of the Swiss Monte Carlo Plan for a static and dynamic 6 MV photon beam. Zeitschrift für medizinische Physik, 21(2), pp. 124-34. Amsterdam: Elsevier, Urban & Fischer 10.1016/j.zemedi.2010.10.010

Spezi, E; Volken, W; Frei, D; Fix, M K (2011). A virtual source model for kilo-voltage cone beam CT: source characteristics and model validation. Medical physics, 38(9), pp. 5254-63. College Park, Md.: American Association of Physicists in Medicine AAPM 10.1118/1.3626574

Terribilini, Dario; Fix, Michael K; Frei, Daniel; Volken, Werner; Manser, Peter (2010). VMC++ validation for photon beams in the energy range of 20-1000 keV. Medical physics, 37(10), pp. 5218-27. College Park, Md.: American Association of Physicists in Medicine AAPM

Fix, Michael K; Frei, Daniel; Volken, Werner; Neuenschwander, Hans; Born, Ernst J; Manser, Peter (2010). Monte Carlo dose calculation improvements for low energy electron beams using eMC. Physics in medicine and biology, 55(16), pp. 4577-88. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing IOP 10.1088/0031-9155/55/16/S11

Schmidhalter, D; Manser, P; Frei, D; Volken, W; Fix, M K (2010). Comparison of monte carlo collimator transport methods for photon treatment planning in radiotherapy. Medical physics, 37(2), pp. 492-504. College Park, Md.: American Association of Physicists in Medicine AAPM 10.1118/1.3284978

Volken, Werner; Frei, Daniel; Manser, Peter; Mini, Roberto; Born, Ernst J; Fix, Michael K (2008). An integral conservative gridding--algorithm using Hermitian curve interpolation. Physics in medicine and biology, 53(21), pp. 6245-63. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing IOP 10.1088/0031-9155/53/21/023

Volken, W; Frei, D; Manser, P; Mini, R; Born, E.J.; Fix, M.K. (2008). Hermitian curve interpolation for CT-data re-sampling. Medical physics, 35(6), p. 2664. College Park, Md.: American Association of Physicists in Medicine AAPM 10.1118/1.2961496

Volken, W; Frei, D; Manser, P; Mini, R; Born, E.J.; Fix, M.K. (2008). Re-gridding CT-data using Hermitian polynomial curve interpolation.

Fix, M.K.; Schmidhalter, D; Frei, D; Volken, W; Manser, P (2008). Efficient collimator transport for photon Monte Carlo treatment planning.

Terribilini, D; Fix, M.K.; Frei, D; Volken, W; Kawrakov, I; Manser, P (2008). Validation of VMC++ for photon beams in the energy range of 20-1000 keV. 10.1118/1.3488892

Fix, Michael K; Manser, Peter; Frei, Daniel; Volken, Werner; Mini, Roberto; Born, Ernst J (2007). An efficient framework for photon Monte Carlo treatment planning. Physics in medicine and biology, 52(19), N425-37. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing IOP 10.1088/0031-9155/52/19/N01

Lomax, A; Grossmann, M; Cozzi, L; Tercier, P A; Boehringer, T; Schneider, U; Logean, M; Volken, W; Ratib, O; Miralbell, R (2000). The exchange of radiotherapy data as part of an electronic patient-referral system. International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics, 47(5), pp. 1449-56. New York, N.Y.: Elsevier 10.1016/S0360-3016(00)00544-7

Borer, K; Dittus, F; Frei, D; Hugentobler, E; Klingenberg, R; Moser, U; Pretzl, K; Schacher, J; Stoffel, F; Volken, W; Elsener, K; Lohmann, KD; Baglin, C; Bussière, A; Guillaud, JP; Appelquist, G; Bohm, C; Hovander, B; Selldèn, B and Zhang, QP (1994). Strangelet search in S-W collisions at 200A GeV/c. Physical review letters, 72(10), pp. 1415-1418. Ridge, N.Y.: American Physical Society 10.1103/PhysRevLett.72.1415