Open AccessValidation of PRIMO monte carlo model of clinac®ix 6mv photon beam
Author(s) -
B Sarin,
B. Bindhu,
B Saju,
Raguram K Nair
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of medical physics/journal of medical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.292
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1998-3913
pISSN - 0971-6203
DOI - 10.4103/jmp.jmp_75_19
Subject(s) - quality assurance , monte carlo method , linear particle accelerator , beam (structure) , nuclear medicine , physics , photon , radiation treatment planning , computational physics , medical physics , nuclear engineering , mathematics , optics , radiation therapy , statistics , engineering , medicine , external quality assessment , operations management
This study aims to model 6MV photon of Clinac ® iX linear accelerator using PRIMO Monte Carlo (MC) code and to assess PRIMO as an independent MC-based dose verification and quality assurance tool.