TOPAS-MC Extension for Nuclear Medicine Applications

Autor:	Rodrigues, Cristiana, Peralta, Luis, Ferreira, Paulo
Rok vydání:	2023
Předmět:	Physics - Medical Physics
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	Monte Carlo (MC) techniques are currently deemed the gold standard for internal dosimetry, since the simulations can perform full radiation transport and reach a precision level not attainable by analytical methods. In this study, a custom voxelized particle source was developed for the TOPAS-MC toolkit to be used for internal dosimetry purposes. The source was designed to allow the use of clinical functional scans data to simulate events that reproduce the patient-specific tracer biodistribution. Simulation results are very promising, showing that this can be a first step towards the extension of TOPAS-MC to nuclear medicine applications. In the future more studies are needed to further ascertain the applicability and accuracy of the developed routines. Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.03657 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv