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Korean Journal of Medical Physics 2012; 23(4): 303-308

Published online December 25, 2012

Copyright © Korean Society of Medical Physics.

Development of Monte Carlo Simulation Code for the Dose Calculation of the Stereotactic Radiosurgery

뇌 정위 방사선수술의 선량 계산을 위한 몬테카를로 시뮬레이션 코드 개발

Jeongku Kang*, Dong Joon Lee

강정구*ㆍ이동준

*Department of Radiation Oncology, Presbyterian Medical Center, Jeonju, Depatrment of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Inje University, Goyang, Korea

*전주 예수병원 방사선종양학과, 인제대학교 의과대학 신경외과학교실

Abstract

The Geant4 based Monte Carlo code for the application of stereotactic radiosurgery was developed. The probability density function and cumulative density function to determine the incident photon energy were calculated from pre-calculated energy spectrum for the linac by multiplying the weighting factors corresponding to the energy bins. The messenger class to transfer the various MLC fields generated by the planning system was used. The rotation matrix of rotateX and rotateY were used for simulating gantry and table rotation respectively. We construct accelerator world and phantom world in the main world coordinate to rotate accelerator and phantom world independently. We used dicomHandler class object to convert from the dicom binary file to the text file which contains the matrix number, pixel size, pixel's HU, bit size, padding value and high bits order. We reconstruct this class object to work fine. We also reconstruct the PrimaryGeneratorAction class to speed up the calculation time. because of the huge calculation time we discard search process of the ThitsMap and used direct access method from the first to the last element to produce the result files.

KeywordsMonte Carlo, Dicom, Stereotactic Radiosurgery, Geant4

Korean Society of Medical Physics

Vol.35 No.3
September 2024

pISSN 2508-4445
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