Table of Contents
Abstract
Table of Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
List of Equations
Preface
Radiation 1 Therapy
1.1 Modern Linear Accelerator (Linac)
1.1.1 MultiLeaf Collimator (MLC)
1.2 Intensity Modulated RadioTherapy (IMRT)
1.2.1 IMRT Quality Assurance (QA)
2 Monte Carlo
2.1 Monte Carlo codes
2.1.1 MCNP5
2.1.2 BEAMnrc
2.2 Variance Reduction Techniques
2.2.1 MCNP5
2.2.2 BEAMnrc
3 Cluster Design
3.1 Parallelization considerations
3.2 The Two Clusters
3.2.1 Torque Cluster
3.2.2 Blade Cluster
3.3 TORQUE Resource Manager
3.4 Custom Code Modifications
4 Accelerator Model Creation
4.1 Component Module Sequence
4.2 Simulation Input Parameters
4.2.1 Accelerator Head Model
4.2.2 Cylindrical Phantom
4.2.3 Air Slab
4.3 Phase space file format
5 Virtual Electronic Portal Image Device (vEPID)
5.1 vEPID Detector Deconvolution
5.1.1 Deconvolution Parameter Fitting
6 Parameter Space construction
Fluence 7 Calculation
8 Fluence Solver
8.1 Derivative calculation function
8.2 Initial Guess Calculation
8.3 Fluence Solver Program Design
9 Results
10 Conclusion
References
Appendix A Live-Build Customizations
A.1 auto/build
A.2 auto/config
A.3 auto/clean
A.4 auto/chroot_local-preseed/nis.cfg
A.5 auto/chroot_local-packagelists/blade_live.lst
A.6 auto/chroot_local-includes/etc/ganglia/conf.d/hpasmcli.pyconf
A.7 auto/chroot_local-includes/etc/ganglia/conf.d/modpython.conf
A.8 auto/chroot_local-includes/etc/ganglia/gmond.conf
A.9 auto/chroot_local-includes/etc/init.d/nfsswap
A.10 auto/chroot_local-includes/lib/live/config/001-hostname
A.11 auto/chroot_local-includes/usr/lib/ganglia/python_modules/hpasmcli.py
A.12 auto/chroot_local-hooks/blcr-dkms.chroot
A.13 auto/chroot_local-hooks/nfsswap.chroot
A.14 auto/chroot_apt/preferences
EGSnrc & Appendix B BEAMnrc Modifications
B.1 EGSnrc unified diff
B.2 BEAMnrc unified diff
Appendix C Accelerator Model Input Files
C.1 6MVmohan_tomylar_10x10.egsinp
C.2 cylinder_imrt.egsinp
Appendix D Ancillary Phase Space Tools
D.1 phsp_fix.c
D.2 set_latch.py
D.3 phsp_set_latch.c
Appendix E Virtual EPID Characterization
E.1 BEAM_6MVmohan_tomylar_20x20_Epid.egsinp
E.2 EPID_20x20.egsinp
E.3 bin_fluence.py
E.4 bin_fluence_at60.py
E.5 bin_3ddose.py
E.6 combine_hist.py
E.7 hist_deconvolution.py
E.8 deconv_param_solver.py
Fluence Appendix F Calculation Tools
F.1 create_deconv_parameter_space.py
F.2 ll_create_deconv_param_space.py
F.3 fluence_convolution.py
F.4 ll_fluence_convolution.py
F.5 fluence_solver.py
F.6 mpi_fluence_solver.py
Appendix G Ancilary Utility Functions
G.1 rtp2mlc\script.sh
G.2 rtp2mlc\templates\beam.templat
G.3 rtp2mlc\templates\cp.template
G.4 utils.py
G.5 disp_binned.py
G.6 disp_binned_dcparam.py
G.7 disp_binned_fl.py
G.8 combine_phsp_using_beamdp.sh
G.9 dest_combine_phsp_using_beamdp.sh
