Clinical Radiotherapy

The computations of radiation transport used Monte Carlo simulation with millions of histories. By breaking the task into smaller sets and using Nimrod/G to distribute these to the UK National Grid Service, computation times were reduced from six days to three hours.

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Chin P.W., Lewis D. G. and Giddy J. P., "A Monte Carlo solution for external beam photon radiotherapy verification", The Monte Carlo Method: Versatility Unbounded in a Dynamic Computing World, Chattanooga, Tennessee, April 2005 pp 17-21. Abstract http://marychin.org/mc2005.pdf

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