Limitations in the PHOTON Monte Carlo gamma transport code

Limitations in the PHOTON Monte Carlo gamma transport code

Three Monte Carlo gamma transport codes, MCNP, EGS, PHOTON, differ in the degree of difficulty in implementing them for calculation and in the requirements for the input file. Differences in the results were discovered when evaluating the same case using these three transport codes. These differences that are energy dependent are presented here. r 2002 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. PHOTON ...

Estimation of Photon Specific Absorbed Fractions in Digimouse Voxel Phantom using Monte Carlo Simulation Code FLUKA

Background: Most preclinical studies are carried out on mice. For internal dose assessment of a mouse, specific absorbed fraction (SAF) values play an important role. In most studies, SAF values are estimated using older standard human organ compositions and values for limited source target pairs.Objective: SAF values for monoenergetic photons of energies 15, 50, 100, 500, 1000 and 4000 keV...

Comparing Id and Haskell in a Monte Carlo Photon Transport Code Y Capsule Review

In this paper we present functional Id and Haskell versions of a large Monte Carlo radiation transport code, and compare the two languages with respect to their expressiveness. Monte Carlo transport simulation exercises such abilities as parsing, input/output, recur-sive data structures and traditional number crunching, which makes it a good test problem for languages and compilers. Using some ...

Comparing Id and Haskell in a Monte Carlo Photon Transport Code

PENELOPE, a code system for Monte Carlo simulation of electron and photon transport

The computer code system penelope (version 2003) performs Monte Carlo simulation of coupled electron-photon transport in arbitrary materials for a wide energy range, from a few hundred eV to about 1 GeV. Photon transport is simulated by means of the standard, detailed simulation scheme. Electron and positron histories are generated on the basis of a mixed procedure, which combines detailed simu...