background: the advantages of proton beam in radiation therapy- like small lateral scattering as well as absence of exit dose tail in the organs which are after the tumor- make it capable of delivering more treatment doses to the target and much lesser to the critical tissues near it. materials and methods: in this study, the monte carlo mcnpx code has been used to simulate a slab head phantom ...

ii PREFACE Part I of the present series described a study to evaluate radiation detection and imaging systems commonly found in hospitals to determine their suitability for rapidly scanning individuals for internal contamination, and to develop recommendations regarding their potential use (Anigstein et al. 2007a). That report described the measurement of count rates from single discrete radioa...

Introduction: In recent years, there has been increasing demand for personalized anatomy modeling for medical applications, because the influence of phantoms on the quality of treatments and precision dosimetry has been specified. Phantoms have many applications on medical such as treatment planning, diagnostic imaging, clinical radiological exposure simulation, and biomechanic...

The National Science Foundation’s (NSF’s) Extensible Terascale Facility (ETF), or TeraGrid [1] is entering its operational phase. An ETF science gateway effort is the Neutron Science TeraGrid Gateway (NSTG.) The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) resource provider effort (ORNL-RP) during construction and now in operations is bridging a large scale experimental community and the TeraGrid as a ...

A Cray XT5 system has recently been installed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). This system differs from the existing XT4 system at ORNL in its compute node architecture, utilizing two quad-core Opteron Barcelona processors instead of a single quad-core Opteron Budapest processor. It also differs in its sheer scale, having approximately 150,000 processor cores, almost 5 times as many as

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...

Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) is a relatively safer technology for killing cancer cells, one of which the Glioblastoma multiforme. One main components BNCT equipment collimator functions as an exit point epithermal neutron particles that hit cells. In addition to experimental method, research can be carried out by modeling, including using MCNPX software based on Monte Carlo Method. This...