Advanced Physics for Brachytherapy 2018

1. I need to be efficient

Can the CC method be both efficient AND accurate…?

• I can reduce the number of directions since scerma from voxel A not distributed to voxel B’ due to the CC approximation will be compensated by scerma from another point A’ along the same transport direction

Figure from: Ahnesjö Med. Phys. 16, 577 (1989)