This work presents BrachyGuide, a brachytherapy-dedicated software tool for the automatic preparation of input files for Monte Carlo simulation from treatment plans exported in DICOM RT format, and results of calculations performed for its benchmarking. Three plans were prepared using two computational models, the image series of a water sphere and a multicatheter breast brachytherapy patient, ...

a Department of physics, faculty of science, Takestan Branch, Islamic Azad University,Takestan, IRAN. b Engineering Department, Shahid Beheshti University, G.C., P.O. Box 1983963113, Tehran, IRAN. ________________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract: Absorption dose distribution of onion powder in electron irradiation system has been numerically inve...

The distribution of radiation doses in cancer patients who receive radiotherapy treatment depends on the distance cancerous organ to source, type including density and atoms organ. Even though exposure is focused that will be irradiated, surrounding healthy organs still have a great chance getting exposure. Healthy can exposed within certain period time are thought opportunity experience metast...

background: miniature neutron sources with high neutron flux have abundant applications in medicine, industry and researches. the most important general characteristic of miniature neutron sources is their diameter which is 3mm in average. in this research, we have surveyed and designed an am-be miniature neutron source fabrication. materials and methods: this investigation resulted in creation...

The true coincidence effect is studied in two High Purity Germanium (HPGe) detectors for a variety of isotopes, source geometries and to detector configurations, via computational tools based on Monte–Carlo simulations. Τhe upgraded patch MCNP code MCNP–CP the 2018 version PENELOPE, which take into account decay scheme each cascade emitter, are used calculate Full Energy Peak Efficiency (FEPE) ...

The most recent release of photonuclear interaction data for Monte Carlo applications is the ENDF/B-VII library. While this current version offers several improvements over its predecessors, it does not address the observed, sometimes quite significant variance in the measured data. For instance, for U, the cross-section data in the ENDF/B-VII library is consistently larger than all measurement...

The weight window variance reduction method in the general-purpose Monte Carlo N-Particle radiation transport code MCNP has recently been rewritten. In particular, it is now possible to generate weight window importance functions on a superimposed mesh, eliminating the need to subdivide geometries for variance reduction purposes. Our assessment addresses the following questions: (1) Does the n...

In this paper, the Monte Carlo N-Particle extended computer code (MCNP) were used to design a model of European Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor. The multiplication factor, conversion delayed neutrons fraction, doppler constant, control rod worth, sodium void masses for major heavy nuclei, radial and axial power distribution at high burnup are studied. results show that reactor breeds fissile isotope...

The use of germanium detectors for the identification and quantification of radionuclides in unknown and non-standard counting geometries has increased in the recent past with the need to clean up and verify sites used for radionuclide processing, smuggling detection and other purposes. The calculation of the amount of radionuclide present requires a knowledge of the efficiency of the detector ...

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