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A Coarse Mesh Transport Method with general source treatment for medical physics

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dc.contributor.advisor Rahnema, Farzad
dc.contributor.author Hayward, Robert M. en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMember Wang, Chris
dc.contributor.committeeMember Zhang, Dingkang
dc.contributor.department Nuclear and Radiological Engineering en_US
dc.contributor.department Medical Physics en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2010-01-29T19:42:38Z
dc.date.available 2010-01-29T19:42:38Z
dc.date.issued 2009-11-17 en_US
dc.description.abstract The Coarse-Mesh Transport Method (COMET) is a method developed by the Computational Reactor and Medical Physics Group at Georgia Tech. Its original application was neutron transport for nuclear reactor modeling. COMET has since been shown to be effective for coupled photon-electron transport calculations where the goal is to determine the energy deposition of a photon beam. So far COMET can simulate a mono-directional, mono-energetic, spatially-flat photon beam. The goal of this thesis will be to extend COMET by adding a generalized source treatment. The new source will be able to simulate beams that vary in intensity as a function of position, angle, and energy. EGSnrc will be used to verify the accuracy of the new method for 3D photon kerma calculations. en_US
dc.description.degree M.S. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/31696
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
dc.subject Photon transport en_US
dc.subject Dose calculation en_US
dc.subject Kerma calculation en_US
dc.subject Monte Carlo en_US
dc.subject.lcsh Medical physics
dc.subject.lcsh Neutron transport theory
dc.subject.lcsh Nuclear reactors Mathematical models
dc.subject.lcsh Photon transport theory
dc.title A Coarse Mesh Transport Method with general source treatment for medical physics en_US
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dc.type.genre Thesis
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local.contributor.advisor Rahnema, Farzad
local.contributor.corporatename George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
local.contributor.corporatename College of Engineering
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