Echevarría TWJ, Manso NW, González GJ, Fragoso NJA

Language: Spanish
References: 5
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ABSTRACT

Background: there is still no optimal way to determine the dose absorbed by tumors; this lack of knowledge is the reason why the final dose of treatment is unpredictable. For this reason, patients may be receiving doses greater than the minimum required for their correct diagnosis.
Objective: to create a source code for an application project of the GATE program in the simulation of absorbed dose in molecular radiotherapy, by Monte Carlo method, for a Giap phantom.
Methods: the simulation was carried out by the Montecarlo method from modeling the Giap phantom, using the GATE simulation platform. The results obtained were compared with the information reflected in the bibliography on standardized best practices.
Results: a source code implemented in GATE was prepared for the determination of the absorbed dose in molecular radiotherapy. Non-uniform distribution of doses was obtained in a medium with uniform activity and an approximate 2% uncertainty (in correspondence with the values reported in the literature), the results allow to affirm that the dose simulation through the GATE platform is reliable, of little computational expense and highly recommended.
Conclusions: it is advisable to use the GATE platform for the simulation of the calculation of the absorbed dose because it is fast, of low computational cost and reliable.

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