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A Coarse Mesh Transport Method with general source treatment for medical physics

The Coarse-Mesh Transport Method (COMET) is a method developed by the Computational Reactor and Medical Physics Group at Georgia Tech. Its original application was neutron transport for nuclear reactor modeling. COMET has since been shown to be effective for coupled photon-electron transport calculations where the goal is to determine the energy deposition of a photon beam. So far COMET can simulate a mono-directional, mono-energetic, spatially-flat photon beam. The goal of this thesis will be to extend COMET by adding a generalized source treatment. The new source will be able to simulate beams that vary in intensity as a function of position, angle, and energy. EGSnrc will be used to verify the accuracy of the new method for 3D photon kerma calculations.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:GATECH/oai:smartech.gatech.edu:1853/31696
Date17 November 2009
CreatorsHayward, Robert M.
PublisherGeorgia Institute of Technology
Source SetsGeorgia Tech Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis

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