Purpose A Monte Carlo model of a 6 MV medical linear accelerator (linac) unit built indigenously was developed using the BEAMnrc user code of the EGSnrc code system. The model was benchmarked against the measurements. Monte Carlo simulations were carried out for different incident electron beam parameters in the study. Materials and Methods Simulation of indigenously developed linac unit has ...

PURPOSE Easy particle propagation (Epp) is a user code for the EGSnrc code package based on the c+ + class library egspp. A main feature of egspp (and Epp) is the ability to use analytical objects to construct simulation geometries. The authors developed Epp to facilitate the simulation of x-ray imaging geometries, especially in the case of scatter studies. While direct use of egspp requires kn...

Tissue-equivalent phantoms are suitable tools for radiation dosimetry investigations. The goal of this study was to determine the scattered dose in a simple phantom model mouse with xenographic tumour using experimental measurements and Monte-Carlo calculations. We manufactured cubic polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) an extrusion on its side both normal tissue xenograft tumour-bearing mouse. posit...

background:  this study presents patient specific and organ dose estimation in computed tomography (ct) imaging of thorax directly from patient ct image using monte carlo simulation.  patient's ct image is considered as the patient specific phantom and the best representative of patient physical index in order to calculate specific organ dose. materials and methods: egsnrc /beamnrc monte c...

PURPOSE The distributed computing implementation of the EGSnrc Monte Carlo system using a computer cluster is investigated and tested. METHODS The computational performance was tested for various scenarios with different number of computers used in order to assess the efficiency of the cluster. The presented computation times and efficiencies include the linac head modeling with full simulati...