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Nucleus

versión impresa ISSN 0864-084Xversión On-line ISSN 2075-5635

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LINARES ROSALES¹, Haydee M; LARA MAS, Elier; ALFONSO LAGUARDIA, Rodolfo  y  POPESCU, Tony. Application of a Monte Carlo linac model in routine verifications of dose calculations. Nucleus [online]. 2015, n.57, pp.44-49. ISSN 0864-084X.

The analysis of some parameters of interest in radiotherapy Medical Physics based on an experimentally validated Monte Carlo model of an Elekta Precise lineal accelerator was performed for 6 and 15 MV photon beams. The simulations were performed using the EGSnrc code. As reference for simulations, the values of the previously obtained optimal beam parameters (energy and FWHM) were used. Deposited dose calculations in water phantoms were done, on typical complex geometries commonly are used in acceptance and quality control tests, such as irregular and asymmetric fields. Parameters such as MLC scatter, maximum opening or closing position, and the separation between them were analyzed from calculations in water. Similarly simulations were performed on phantoms obtained from CT studies of real patients, making comparisons of the dose distribution calculated with EGSnrc and the dose distribution obtained from the computerized treatment planning systems used in routine clinical plans. All the results showed a great agreement with measurements, fi nding all of them within tolerance limits. These results allowed the possibility of using the developed model as a robust verifi cation tool for validating calculations in very complex situations, where the accuracy of the available TPS could be questionable

Palabras clave : Monte Carlo method; accuracy; linear accelerators; radiation dose; distributions; radiotherapy.

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