Modeling and commissioning of a Clinac 600 CD by Monte Carlo method using the BEAMnrc and DOSXYZnrc codes

摘要

This paper reports the modeling of a linear accelerator Clinac 600 CD with BEAMnrc application, derived from EGSnrc radiation transport code, indicating relevant details of modeling that traditionally involve difficulties imposed on the process. This accelerator was commissioned by the confrontation of experimental dosimetric data with the computer data obtained by DOSXYZnrc application. The information compared in dosimetry process were: field profiles and dose percentage curves obtained in a water phantom with cubic edge of 30 cm. In all comparisons made, the computational data showed satisfactory precision and discrepancies with the experimental data did not exceed 3%, proving the effectiveness of the model. Both the accelerator model and the computational dosimetry methodology, revealed the need for adjustments that probably will allow obtaining more accurate data than those obtained in the simulations presented here. These adjustments are mainly associated to improve the resolution of the field profiles, the voxelization in phantom and optimization of computing time.