Diseño de áreas controladas en radioterapia mediante simulación Monte Carlo

La determinación de barreras en el diseño de instalaciones de radioterapia se realiza actualmente mediante cálculos teóricos conservativos que pueden llevar a sobre estimaciones en el grosor de las barreras de hasta un orden de magnitud [1. Una alternativa que promete ser mas precisa para el cálculo de blindajes en instalaciones de radioterapia es la simulación Monte Carlo. Se plantea el desarrollo de simulaciones en Geant4 que consisten en una primera etapa de una validación de la simulación para posteriormente obtener valores de TVLs (Tenth Value Layer) y coeficientes de dispersión. Se propone el desarrollo de una simulación que permita determinar el grosor de las barreras teniendo como parámetros de entrada la carga de trabajo, el área disponible, el espectro de energía, entre otras. Como resultado de esta simulación se obtendrá también un estudio de las dependencias de los grosores de las barreras como función de los pa¿ametros de entrada ya mencionados. 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