{"id":60361,"date":"2007-07-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deberes.net\/tesis\/sin-categoria\/development-of-monte-carlo-techniques-to-improve-quality-control-and-treatment-planning-in-radiotherapy\/"},"modified":"2007-07-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-09T00:00:00","slug":"development-of-monte-carlo-techniques-to-improve-quality-control-and-treatment-planning-in-radiotherapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deberes.net\/tesis\/politecnica-de-catalunya\/development-of-monte-carlo-techniques-to-improve-quality-control-and-treatment-planning-in-radiotherapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Development of monte carlo techniques to improve quality control and treatment planning in radiotherapy."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tesis doctoral de <strong> Vanessa Panettieri <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The present thesis is aimed at applying the monte carlo (mc) methods to solve specific problems related to external radiotherapy practice. It is presented as a compendium of several works described in a series of papers, and the papers are presented in order to show mc applications in all main steps of the treatment chain, both in physical and medical aspects. The main tool used in all the work was the monte carlo simulation code penelope for radiation transport with the aid of the peneasy package, a general purpose \u00abmain programme\u00bb custom made for penelope.  the topics to be addressed were chosen together with fellow scientists and doctors from hospitals because of clinical needs and the expected advantages of mc to solve radiation transport problems in radiotherapy. The main achievements were accomplished both from a simulation point of view, by implementing and using new techniques for speeding up results and reducing uncertainties of calculations, and from a clinical point of view, by improving clinical procedures. A brief summary of the main results obtained is given below.  phase space files (psf) of two different accelerator machines (varian clinac 2100cd and varian clinac 1800) and two cobalt teletherapy units (eldorado 78 and theratron-780, nordion) were calculated and validated by comparison with experimental data.  penelope simulation parameters were optimized by introducing analogue simulation, and various variance reduction techniques were implemented in the peneasy main programme to improve statistical uncertainties and reduce computation time. Moreover parallelization was used. These techniques were applied in the calculation of the response of ionization plane parallel chambers for the co-60 beam quality and for metal-oxide-field effect transistors (mosfets) used as radiation dosimeters.  electron beam quality correction factors kq,qo as defined in the iaea protocol trs-398, were calculated with penelope for the scanditronix nacp-02, and the<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Datos acad\u00e9micos de la tesis doctoral \u00ab<strong>Development of monte carlo techniques to improve quality control and treatment planning in radiotherapy.<\/strong>\u00ab<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>T\u00edtulo de la tesis:<\/strong>\u00a0 Development of monte carlo techniques to improve quality control and treatment planning in radiotherapy. <\/li>\n<li><strong>Autor:<\/strong>\u00a0 Vanessa Panettieri <\/li>\n<li><strong>Universidad:<\/strong>\u00a0 Polit\u00e9cnica de catalunya<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fecha de lectura de la tesis:<\/strong>\u00a0 07\/09\/2007<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Direcci\u00f3n y tribunal<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Director de la tesis<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Merce Ginjaume Egido<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tribunal<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Presidente del tribunal: xavier Ortega aramburu <\/li>\n<li>alan Nahum (vocal)<\/li>\n<li>francesc Salvat gavald\u00ed\u00a0 (vocal)<\/li>\n<li>ingmar Lax (vocal)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesis doctoral de Vanessa Panettieri The present thesis is aimed at applying the monte carlo (mc) methods to solve specific 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