Advanced Physics for Brachytherapy 2018

In short: ACE (Oncentra Brachy)

Long heritage

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Angular discretization

adaptive (“accuracy” selection & # sources) adaptive multi-resolution Cartesian grid (“accuracy” selection) Primary dose for source model, energy spectra, kernels

Spatial discretization

Pre-calculated data as input

Energy discretization

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Primary scatter separation

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Ray-tracing for primary

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Prim. dose → 1 st scatter SCERMA → multiple scatter SCERMA

Successive scattering