Advanced Physics for Brachytherapy 2018

The MC method …

Simple examples: Choosing emission direction for a mono-energetic point source. The emission is isotropic and the probability of emission into a solid angle element dΩ equals the fraction of this solid angle in the 4π geometry so that:

Figure from: Venselaar, Baltas, Meigooni, Hoskin (Eds), Comprehensive Brachytehrapy: physical and clinical aspects. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, © 2013