Advanced Physics for Brachytherapy 2018

2. inhomogeneities

The method inherently accounts for inhomogeneities assuming material properties are constant within each computational element (!!! restriction on computational element size !!!) through: • μ t,g , μ s,l,g • primary fluence ray tracing • dose calculation

    )(

    )(

    )(

    )(

 G

 P

 G

 P

1

1

water

= )( rD

D

r

r

)( r unc

r coll

r

r unc

r coll

+ g

(

)

=

)( ,

+ g

gen

gp

gen

gp

,

,

,

r

)( g

water

p

g

p

=

1

=

1

=

1

=

1

(note that D is calculated as a post processing operation)

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