objective: using megavoltage photons generated by medical linear accelerator is a common modality for the treatment of malignant. the crucial problem for using photon beams >8mv is the photoneutron yields that increase the risk of secondary cancer that treated with high-energy photon beams. the contaminated neutrons produced in different components of the accelerator head and rely on many param...

objective: the aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of tissue composition on dose distribution in electron beam radiotherapy. methods : a siemens primus linear accelerator and a phantom were simulated using mcnpx monte carlo code. in a homogeneous cylindrical phantom, six types of soft tissue and three types of tissue-equivalent materials were investigated. the tissues included muscle (s...

Many good tracking tools are available for simulations for linear accelerators. However, several simple tasks need to be performed repeatedly, like lattice definitions, beam setup, output storage, etc. In addition, complex simulations can become unmanageable quite easily. A high level layer would therefore be beneficial. We propose LinSim, a linear accelerator framework with the codes PLACET an...

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Motivation Across biology we are seeing rapid developments in scale of data production without a corresponding increase in data analysis capabilities. Results Here, we present Aether (http://aether.kosticlab.org), an intuitive, easy-to-use, cost-effective, and scalable framework that uses linear programming (LP) to optimally bid on and deploy combinations of underutilized cloud computing reso...

Linear Colliders require high gradient (to reduce length dependent costs), high shunt impedance (to reduce power dependent costs) accelerator structures in which the long range dipole wakefields have been reduced by 2 to 3 orders of magnitude. The precise dipole wake reduction factor required depends on many factors. These include the beam intensity and time structure, the accelerator aperture ...

The International Linear Collider (ILC) is a 200–500GeV center-of-mass highluminosity linear electron-positron collider, based on 1.3 GHz superconducting accelerating technology (SCRF). The colliding experiment of electron-positron will provide enormous data of the high energy physics, for example, the nature of Higgs particle, not-found particles like super-symmetric particles, and proof of un...

Aim: The purpose of this study was to make a comparison between measured and calculated physical wedge dose distributions using the superposition algorithm. Settings and Design: The accurate determination of absorbed dose is important radiotherapy because of the relatively steep sigmoidal dose response curves for both tumor control and normal-tissue damage. Materials and Methods: High-energy ph...