• DocumentCode
    1617461
  • Title

    Considerations of MCNP Monte Carlo code to be used as a radiotherapy treatment planning tool

  • Author

    Juste, B. ; Miró, R. ; Gallardo, S. ; Santos, A. ; Verdu, G.

  • Author_Institution
    Departamento de Ingenieria Quimica y Nucl., Univ. Politecnica de Valencia
  • fYear
    2006
  • Firstpage
    2828
  • Lastpage
    2831
  • Abstract
    The present work has simulated the photon and electron transport in a Theratron 780reg (MDS Nordion) 60Co radiotherapy unit, using the Monte Carlo transport code, MCNP (Monte Carlo N-Particle). This project explains mainly the different methodologies carried out to speedup calculations in order to apply this code efficiently in radiotherapy treatment planning
  • Keywords
    Monte Carlo methods; cobalt; radiation therapy; 60Co radiotherapy unit; Monte Carlo N-particle; Monte Carlo code; Theratron 780; electron transport; photon transport; radiotherapy; treatment planning tool; Acceleration; Biological system modeling; Computational geometry; Computational modeling; Concurrent computing; Ionization chambers; Medical simulation; Monte Carlo methods; Solid modeling; Surface treatment;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2005. IEEE-EMBS 2005. 27th Annual International Conference of the
  • Conference_Location
    Shanghai
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8741-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1617062
  • Filename
    1617062
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1617461