Open AccessDosimetric investigation for the new BEBIG cobalt 60 source used in brachytherapy using Monte Carlo N-Particles eXtended code (MCNPX)
Author(s) -
Said Elboukhari,
Khalid Yamni,
Hmad Ouabi,
Taoufiq Bouassa,
Lahcen Ait Mlouk
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/783/1/012019
Subject(s) - brachytherapy , monte carlo method , source code , medical physics , nuclear engineering , computer science , computational physics , physics , nuclear medicine , medicine , radiology , statistics , mathematics , engineering , radiation therapy , operating system
The purpose of this work is to calculate the parameters of the 60 Co-source model: Co0.A86 newly introduced to the HDR brachytherapy, and to validate the MCNPX code in Monte Carlo investigation, the radial dose function, and function of anisotropy are calculated in water as recommended in the report of HEBD working group (AAPM&ESTRO). The results obtained in this study agree will with the data published in previous studies.