Journal: Medical Physics
Article Title: Experimental validation of a FLUKA Monte Carlo simulation for carbon‐ion radiotherapy monitoring via secondary ion tracking
doi: 10.1002/mp.17408
Figure Lengend Snippet: Implementation of the mini‐tracker in the FLUKA simulation. At the bottom of the image, there is a picture of the mini‐tracker. The sensitive region of the detector implemented in the FLUKA MC simulation is shown in the red dashed box. The sensitive region in FLUKA MC comprises the silicon sensitive layer, the bump bonds, the readout, and the U‐shaped aluminum bars.
Article Snippet: We utilized the FLUKA general‐purpose MC code, , renowed for its strong focus on medical applications., FLUKA has undergone extensive development and validation for medical applications, particularly for ion radiotherapy., , FLUKA's robustness has been demonstrated through thorough benchmarking against depth‐dose data and lateral‐dose profiles from various ion‐beam therapy and research facilities., , Furthermore, FLUKA has been selected by a commercial vendor for validation purposes and to provide physics input data for their newly developed carbon‐ion module.
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