EP-1445: Monte Carlo simulation of electron beams from medical linac using EGS5

A. Nevelsk; Raquel Bar-Deroma; Itzhak Orion

doi:10.1016/S0167-8140(15)31563-2

EP-1445: Monte Carlo simulation of electron beams from medical linac using EGS5

A. Nevelsk
, Raquel Bar-Deroma
, Itzhak Orion

Unit of Nuclear Engineering

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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Abstract

EGS5 is a general purpose MC code currently developed at KEK (Japan). EGS5 is based on the well-known EGS4 code and contains some important improvements. The main advances of the EGS5 code include improvements in electron transport mechanics, elimination of PRESTA’s boundary crossing logic and automatic step-size optimization algorithm. The purpose of this study is to validate the EGS5 code for the simulation of electron beams from an Elekta Precise linac as a preparation for further work including simulation of an IORT electron applicator in use at our institution

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	S138-S139
Journal	Radiotherapy and Oncology
Volume	111
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0167-8140(15)31563-2
State	Published - 31 Dec 2014

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