Open AccessDosimetry parameters calculation of two commercial iodine brachytherapy sources using SMARTEPANTS with EPDL97 library
Author(s) -
Navid Ayoobian,
Kamal Hadada,
B. D. Ganapol
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1482.106576
Subject(s) - brachytherapy , dosimetry , medical physics , iodine , radiochemistry , nuclear medicine , medicine , materials science , radiation therapy , chemistry , radiology , metallurgy
Simulating Many Accumulative Rutherford Trajectories Electron Photon and Neutral Transport Solver (SMARTEPANTS) is a discrete ordinates S N Boltzmann/Spencer-Lewis solver that was developed during 1988-1993 by William Filippone and his students. The code calculates particle fluxes, leakage currents as well as energy and charge deposition for coupled electron/photon in x-y-z geometries both in forward and in adjoin modes. Originally, SMARTEPANTS was designed to utilize CEPXS cross-section library for shielding calculation in satellite electronics. The aim of this study was to adapt SMARTEPANTS to use a new photon cross-section library from Evaluated Photon Data Library, 1997 version (EPDL97) for intravascular brachytherapy (125)Isimulations.