During the last decades radiotherapy has made major improvements in accuracy and individualization of the treatment techniques. In this project the thickness of a tungsten filter has been optimized using both simulations and experiments in order to further reduce the uncertainty in the dose given to the patient. With the filter, a dosage with less uncertainty can be obtained and less electrons will strike the patient which means less skin damage. In the simulations a program called PENELOPE, has been used which uses Monte Carlo methods for electron and photons transports. The experiment has been done on real Linear Accelerators.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-260659 |
| Date | January 2015 |
| Creators | Lindqvist, Malcolm, Eriksson, Gustav |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Medicinsk strålningsvetenskap, Uppsala universitet, Medicinsk strålningsvetenskap |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | TVE ; 15055 |
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