Comment on 'egs-brachy: A versatile and fast Monte Carlo code for brachytherapy'

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dc.contributor.authorYegin G.
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-22T08:09:54Z
dc.date.available2024-07-22T08:09:54Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractIn a recent paper (Chamberland et al 2016 Phys. Med. Biol. 61 8214) develop a new Monte Carlo code called egs-brachy for brachytherapy treatments. It is based on EGSnrc, and written in the C++ programming language. In order to benchmark the egs-brachy code, the authors use it in various test case scenarios in which complex geometry conditions exist. Another EGSnrc based brachytherapy dose calculation engine, BrachyDose, is used for dose comparisons. The authors fail to prove that egs-brachy can produce reasonable dose values for brachytherapy sources in a given medium. The dose comparisons in the paper are erroneous and misleading. egs-brachy should not be used in any further research studies unless and until all the potential bugs are fixed in the code. © 2018 Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine.
dc.identifier.DOI-ID10.1088/1361-6560/aa9ea1
dc.identifier.issn00319155
dc.identifier.urihttp://akademikarsiv.cbu.edu.tr:4000/handle/123456789/14978
dc.language.isoEnglish
dc.publisherInstitute of Physics Publishing
dc.rightsAll Open Access; Bronze Open Access
dc.subjectBrachytherapy
dc.subjectMonte Carlo Method
dc.subjectPhantoms, Imaging
dc.subjectCodes (symbols)
dc.subjectMonte Carlo methods
dc.subjectOncology
dc.subjectRadiotherapy
dc.subjectBrachyDose
dc.subjectBrachytherapy
dc.subjectComplex geometries
dc.subjectDose calculation
dc.subjectDose comparison
dc.subjectegs-brachy
dc.subjectMonte Carlo codes
dc.subjectResearch studies
dc.subjectbrachytherapy
dc.subjectimaging phantom
dc.subjectMonte Carlo method
dc.subjectC++ (programming language)
dc.titleComment on 'egs-brachy: A versatile and fast Monte Carlo code for brachytherapy'
dc.typeReview

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