Strategic Study of CAE >> 2012, Volume 14, Issue 8
MCDB Monte Carlo dosimetry code system and its applications
Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing 100094, China
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Abstract
MCDB is developed for boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT). This system consists of a medical pre-processor, a dose computation and a post-processor. MCDB automatically produces the input file from CT and MRI image data. In Monte Carlo dose calculation, several accelerated measures, such as the fast track technique, mesh tally matrix and material matrix, are developed. In this paper, we proposed a real model simulated by MCNP and MCDB, respectively. The almost same results as MCNP are achieved. MCDB is faster in computational speed than MCNP.
Keywords
MCDB ; fast tracking technique ; mesh tally matrix ; material matrix
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