Cobalt-60 dose calculations using MCNP methods in gold-embedded tumour and its significance on radiation therapy

• Main Authors: Cruz, J. T. P., Rodriguez, A. L., Trono, Jade Dungao
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2012
• Subjects: Cancer—Radiotherapy; Monte Carlo method; Physical Sciences and Mathematics; Physics
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/12879
• Institution: De La Salle University

In this paper, amplification in dose due to the presence of gold nanoparticles was quantified using Monte Carlo N-Particle (MCNP) simulation. Simulation models included the irradiation of a 30 CEBENT OFF cm x 15 cm pure water-volume phantom with a beam of 1.17 MeV and 1.33 MeV cobalt spectral emissi...