Methods and computer readable media are disclosed for ultimately developing
a dosimetry plan for a treatment volume irradiated during radiation therapy with
a radiation source concentrated internally within a patient or incident from an
external beam. The dosimetry plan is available in near "real-time" because of the
novel geometric model construction of the treatment volume which in turn allows
for rapid calculations to be performed for simulated movements of particles along
particle tracks therethrough. The particles are exemplary representations of alpha,
beta or gamma emissions emanating from an internal radiation source during various
radiotherapies, such as brachytherapy or targeted radionuclide therapy, or they
are exemplary representations of high-energy photons, electrons, protons or other
ionizing particles incident on the treatment volume from an external source. In
a preferred embodiment, a medical image of a treatment volume irradiated during
radiotherapy having a plurality of pixels of information is obtained.