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Record W2000069450 · doi:10.1118/1.2987676

EGSnrc Monte Carlo calculated dosimetry parameters for and brachytherapy sources

2008· article· en· W2000069450 on OpenAlexafffund
R. E. P. Taylor, D. W. O. Rogers

Bibliographic record

VenueMedical Physics · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPhysics and Astronomy
TopicAdvanced Radiotherapy Techniques
Canadian institutionsCarleton University
FundersCanada Research Chairs
KeywordsDosimetryBrachytherapyMonte Carlo methodPhysicsPhotonImaging phantomSuperposition principleComputational physicsRadiationRadiation treatment planningData setDose rateNuclear medicineMedical physicsOpticsRadiation therapyMathematicsStatisticsMedicineRadiology

Abstract

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This study presents the results of EGSnrc Monte Carlo calculations of the dose distribution surrounding a high dose rate 169Yb brachytherapy source and 14 high dose rate and pulsed dose rate 192Ir brachytherapy sources. Energy-weighted spectra of emitted photons, a full set of TG-43 dosimetry parameters, along-away dose tables, and a description of the materials and geometry used for each source are provided. In addition to this, separate tallies are made of the dose contributed from primary, single-scattered, and multiply-scattered photons. Separation of dose in this manner allows one to use convolution/superposition methods to calculate the dose surrounding a brachytherapy source accounting for a non-homogeneous medium. The effect of phantom size on TG-43 dosimetry parameters and scattered dose is also investigated for the 192Ir microSelectron v2 HDR source. This paper describes the calculation methods and presents the dose rate constants calculated for each source with the full set of dosimetry data being available online at the Carleton Laboratory for Radiotherapy Physics brachytherapy database (http://www.physics.carleton.ca/clrp/seed_database/).

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.008
Threshold uncertainty score0.026

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.003

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.014
GPT teacher head0.278
Teacher spread0.263 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations135
Published2008
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