Calculation of radiation therapy dose using all particle Monte Carlo transport
Abstract
The actual radiation dose absorbed in the body is calculated using three-dimensional Monte Carlo transport. Neutrons, protons, deuterons, tritons, helium-3, alpha particles, photons, electrons, and positrons are transported in a completely coupled manner, using this Monte Carlo All-Particle Method (MCAPM). The major elements of the invention include: computer hardware, user description of the patient, description of the radiation source, physical databases, Monte Carlo transport, and output of dose distributions. This facilitated the estimation of dose distributions on a Cartesian grid for neutrons, photons, electrons, positrons, and heavy charged-particles incident on any biological target, with resolutions ranging from microns to centimeters. Calculations can be extended to estimate dose distributions on general-geometry (non-Cartesian) grids for biological and/or non-biological media. 57 figs.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of California (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 321265
- Patent Number(s):
- 5870697
- Application Number:
- PAN: 8-610,917; TRN: 99:003324
- Assignee:
- Univ. of California, Oakland, CA (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-48
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: 9 Feb 1999
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 56 BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE, APPLIED STUDIES; RADIATION DOSES; RADIOTHERAPY; CALCULATION METHODS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; THREE-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS
Citation Formats
Chandler, W P, Hartmann-Siantar, C L, and Rathkopf, J A. Calculation of radiation therapy dose using all particle Monte Carlo transport. United States: N. p., 1999.
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abstractNote = {The actual radiation dose absorbed in the body is calculated using three-dimensional Monte Carlo transport. Neutrons, protons, deuterons, tritons, helium-3, alpha particles, photons, electrons, and positrons are transported in a completely coupled manner, using this Monte Carlo All-Particle Method (MCAPM). The major elements of the invention include: computer hardware, user description of the patient, description of the radiation source, physical databases, Monte Carlo transport, and output of dose distributions. This facilitated the estimation of dose distributions on a Cartesian grid for neutrons, photons, electrons, positrons, and heavy charged-particles incident on any biological target, with resolutions ranging from microns to centimeters. Calculations can be extended to estimate dose distributions on general-geometry (non-Cartesian) grids for biological and/or non-biological media. 57 figs.},
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