Monte Carlo systems used for treatment planning and dose verification

L Brualla, M Rodriguez… - Strahlentherapie und …, 2017 - search.proquest.com
General-purpose radiation transport Monte Carlo codes have been used for estimation of
the absorbed dose distribution in external photon and electron beam radiotherapy patients …

DNA protection by ectoine from ionizing radiation: molecular mechanisms

MB Hahn, S Meyer, MA Schröter, HJ Kunte… - Physical Chemistry …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Ectoine, a compatible solute and osmolyte, is known to be an effective protectant of
biomolecules and whole cells against heating, freezing and extreme salinity. Protection of …

PeneloPET, a Monte Carlo PET simulation tool based on PENELOPE: features and validation

S España, JL Herraiz, E Vicente… - Physics in Medicine …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Monte Carlo simulations play an important role in positron emission tomography (PET)
imaging, as an essential tool for the research and development of new scanners and for …

Fano cavity test for electron Monte Carlo transport algorithms in magnetic fields: comparison between EGSnrc, PENELOPE, MCNP6 and Geant4

J Lee, J Lee, D Ryu, H Lee, SJ Ye - Physics in Medicine & …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
A Fano cavity test was performed for four general-purpose Monte Carlo codes, EGSnrc,
PENELOPE, MCNP6 and Geant4 to evaluate the accuracy of their electron transport …

Comparison between EGSnrc, Geant4, MCNP5 and Penelope for mono-energetic electron beams

JP Archambault, E Mainegra-Hing - Physics in Medicine & …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
A simple geometry is chosen to highlight similarities and differences of current electron
transport algorithms implemented in four Monte Carlo codes commonly used in radiation …

penMesh—Monte Carlo Radiation Transport Simulation in a Triangle Mesh Geometry

A Badal, I Kyprianou, DP Banh… - IEEE transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We have developed a general-purpose Monte Carlo simulation code, called penMesh, that
combines the accuracy of the radiation transport physics subroutines from PENELOPE and …

Direct electron irradiation of DNA in a fully aqueous environment. Damage determination in combination with Monte Carlo simulations

MB Hahn, S Meyer, MA Schröter, H Seitz… - Physical Chemistry …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
We report on a study in which plasmid DNA in water was irradiated with 30 keV electrons
generated by a scanning electron microscope and passed through a 100 nm thick Si3N4 …

Determination of electron energy, spectral width, and beam divergence at the exit window for clinical megavoltage x‐ray beams

DL Sawkey, BA Faddegon - Medical physics, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Monte Carlo simulations of x‐ray beams typically take parameters of the electron beam in
the accelerating waveguide to be free parameters. In this paper, a methodology is proposed …

Measurements and simulations of microscopic damage to DNA in water by 30 keV electrons: a general approach applicable to other radiation sources and biological …

MB Hahn, S Meyer, HJ Kunte, T Solomun, H Sturm - Physical Review E, 2017 - APS
The determination of the microscopic dose-damage relationship for DNA in an aqueous
environment is of a fundamental interest for dosimetry and applications in radiation therapy …

Monte Carlo simulation of linac using PRIMO

Y Li, X Sun, Y Liang, Y Hu, C Liu - Radiation Oncology, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Background Monte Carlo simulation is considered as the most accurate method for
dose calculation in radiotherapy. PRIMO is a Monte-Carlo program with a user-friendly …