Los paneles de fósforo se utilizan en muchas aplicaciones médicas de imágenes de rayos X. El diseño y la optimización de estos detectores puede lograrse utilizando códigos Monte Carlo para simular el transporte de radiación ...
Codosero Navarro, Claudia(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2019-10-21)
[ES] La dosimetría personalizada y precisa del tratamiento con Lutecio-177 (177Lu) en tumores
endocrinos es esencial, ya que la absorción y la eliminación varían entre los pacientes. Este
trabajo presenta una metodología ...
Ordóñez Ródenas, José(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2020-10-16)
[ES] En el apoyo a la mejora de la calidad de medida en el Laboratorio de Radiactividad Ambiental (LRA) de la Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), los códigos de Monte Carlo representan una potente herramienta para ...
Oliver Gil, Sandra(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2024-04-27)
[ES] La tesi presentada a aquest document, s'emmarca dins de l'àmbit de la física mèdica. Dins d'aquesta branca de la física, es desenvolupen eines computacionals per oferir millores en la planificació de tractaments que ...
Ribes García, Verónica(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2023-09-26)
[ES] La terapia del 177Lu marcado con la denominada ¿Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen¿ (PSMA) es
una novedosa terapia utilizada cada vez más en pacientes con cáncer de próstata metastásico. Debido
a los beneficios ...
[EN] In order to undertake further studies on neutron spectra deconvolution in radiotherapy LinAc bunkers after using high megavolts treatment beams, it has been calculated the theoretical Response Function for a widespread ...
[EN] Unwanted neutrons in radiation therapy treatments are typically generated by photonuclear reactions. High-energy beams emitted by medical Linear Accelerators (LinAcs) interact with high atomic number materials situated ...
[EN] High-energy radiotherapy treatments of a medical Linear Accelerator (LinAc) generate secondary neutrons that can produce health damage on the human body as the induction of secondary cancers. The energy spectrum of ...
Phosphor screens are commonly used in many X-ray imaging applications. The design and optimization of these detectors can be achieved using Monte Carlo codes to simulate radiation transport in scintillation materials and ...
[EN] Different methods exist to verify bunkers design for radiation therapy medical facilities; analytical methods
based on simplified equations and Monte Carlo methods. One of the main purposes of this work is to present ...
[EN] Radiation Therapy Planning Systems (RTPS) presently operating in hospitals comprise algorithms founded on deterministic simplifications that do not correctly take into account electron lateral transport in the regions ...
[EN] Purpose: Some Monte Carlo simulation codes can read and write phase space files in IAEA format,
which are used to characterize accelerators, brachytherapy seeds and other radiation sources.
Moreover, as the format has ...
Radiation therapy treatment planning based on Monte Carlo simulation provide a very accurate dose calculation compared to deterministic systems. Nowadays, Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor (MOSFET) dosimeters ...
[ES] Los sistemas de planificación de radioterapia que operan actualmente en hospitales comprenden algoritmos basados en simplificaciones deterministas que no tienen en cuenta correctamente el transporte lateral de electrones ...
[EN] Energy spectrum is the best descriptive function to determine photon beam quality of a Medical Linear Accelerator (LinAc). The use of realistic photon spectra in Monte Carlo simulations has a great importance to obtain ...