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PURPOSE: To update the Carleton Laboratory for Radiotherapy Physics (CLRP) TG-43 dosimetry database for low-energy (< 50 keV) photon-emitting low-dose rate (LDR) brachytherapy sources utilizing the open-source EGSnrc application egs_brachy…

Purpose: To update and extend the Carleton Laboratory for Radiotherapy Physics (CLRP) Eye Plaque (EP) dosimetry database for low-energy photon-emitting brachytherapy sources using egs_brachy, an open-source EGSnrc application. The previous…

The $^{192}$Ir sources are widely used for high dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy treatments. The aim of this study is to simulate $^{192}$Ir MicroSelectron v2 HDR brachytherapy source and calculate the air kerma strength, dose rate constant,…

In this study, recommendations of the AAPM TG- 43 (U1) report have been followed to characterize the new 192Ir pulse dose rate source, provided by the Applied Radiation Research School, Nuclear Science and Technology Research Institute in…

PURPOSE: Permanent breast seed implant (PBSI) using 103Pd is emerging as an effective adjuvant radiation technique for early-stage breast cancer. However, clinical dose evaluations follow the water-based TG-43 approach with its considerable…

We have previously described RapidBrachyMCTPS, a brachytherapy treatment planning toolkit consisting of a graphical user interface (GUI) and a Geant4-based Monte Carlo (MC) dose calculation engine. This work describes the tools that have…

Monte Carlo calculations using the codes PENELOPE and GEANT4 have been performed to characterize the dosimetric properties of monoenergetic photon point sources in water. The dose rate in water has been calculated for energies of interest…

In this report simulations of 192Ir source located inside a phantom designed for measuring the absorbed dose and radioactive source position are presented. Monte Carlo simulations were performed and results were compared with a theoretical…

This paper gives a description of a new on-line database http://lpsc.in2p3.fr/crdb and associated on-line tools (data selection, data export, plots, etc.) for charged cosmic-ray measurements. The experimental setups (type, flight dates,…

This study presents the development and validation of an independent software tool based on the Varian Eclipse Scripting API (ESAPI) for multi-modal brachytherapy Quality Assurance (QA). The tool addresses GEC-ESTRO HDR protocols and LDR…

BACKGROUND: Targeted Radionuclide Therapy (TRT) is a fast-growing field garnering much interest, however, dosimetry calculation techniques remain relatively simple. PURPOSE: To introduce egs_mird, a new Monte Carlo application built in…

Purpose: This work describes the development and pilot implementation of a comprehensive remote dosimetry audit for Ir-192 high-dose-rate interstitial brachytherapy, integrating independent experimental and computational dosimetry within a…

Purpose: To develop a Monte Carlo (MC) therapeutic dose calculation toolkit of a recently released ring gantry linac in Geant4 (Version 10.7) for secondary dose validation of radiotherapy plan. Methods: For the Halcyon (Varian Medical…

Purpose: To develop clinically relevant test cases for commissioning Model-Based Dose Calculation Algorithms (MBDCAs) for 192Ir High Dose Rate (HDR) gynecologic brachytherapy following the workflow proposed by the TG-186 report and the…

This study develops and validates a patient-specific Monte Carlo (MC) dosimetry framework for propagation-based phase-contrast breast CT (BCT) at the Imaging and Medical Beamline (IMBL), ANSTO Australian Synchrotron, for accurate mean…

Despite a century of cosmic-ray measurements there seems to have been no attempt to collect these data systematically for use by the CR community. The result is that everyone makes their own collection as required, a large duplication of…

We present an update on CRDB (https://lpsc.in2p3.fr/crdb), the cosmic-ray database for charged species. CRDB is based on MySQL, queried and sorted by jquery and table-sorter libraries, and displayed via PHP web pages through the AJAX…

The cosmic-ray database, CRDB, has been gathering cosmic-ray data for the community since 2013. We present a new release, CRDB v4.1, providing many new quantities and data sets, with several improvements made on the code and web interface,…

Recently, DAMPE has released its first results on the high-energy cosmic-ray electrons and positrons (CREs) from about $25$ GeV to $4.6$ TeV, which directly detect a break at $\sim 1$ TeV. This result gives us an excellent opportunity to…

Purpose: Accurate dose calculation is essential in radiotherapy for precise tumor irradiation while sparing healthy tissue. With the growing adoption of MRI-guided and real-time adaptive radiotherapy, fast and accurate dose calculation on…