Modeling the TrueBeam linac using a CAD to Geant4 geometry implementation: Dose and IAEA-compliant phase space calculations

Medical Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 4018-4024

  Constantin, Magdalena ^a   Perl, Joseph ^b   Losasso, Tom ^c   Salop, Arthur ^d   Whittum, David ^d   Narula, Anisha ^d   Svatos, Michelle ^d   Keall, Paul J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d VARIAN MEDICAL SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

6 MV photon beam; cad import; Monte Carlo; phase space

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; GEOMETRY; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; MARKUP LANGUAGES; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

BEAM TRANSPORT; BUILD-UP REGION; CYLINDRICAL SURFACE; DOSE CALCULATION; ELECTRON TRACKS; INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY; PHOTON BEAMS; STANDARD FOR THE EXCHANGE OF PRODUCTS;

PHASE SPACE METHODS;

EID: 79960280336     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3598439     Document Type: Article

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