This is a beta release of egs_brachy, an egs++ application for rapid brachytherapy dose calculations. Some features of egs_brachy include:
- Dose scoring via a tracklength estimator or interaction scoring
- Scoring of the spectrum of particles emitted from a source or particle fluence in a voxel
- Primary and scatter separated dose calculations
- Particle recycling for simulations with multiple sources
- Bremsstrahlung cross section enhancement, uniform bremsstrahlung splitting, and Russian Roulette for efficient electronic brachytherapy simulations.
- A comprehensive library of brachytherapy source geometries,
egs_brachy is available as free and open-source software on GitHub with associated documentation (the egs_brachy paper published in Phys. Med. Biol. in 2016 https://clrp-code.github.io/egs_brachy/pdf/egs_brachy_paper2016.pdf; user manual https://clrp-code.github.io/egs_brachy/pdf/egs_brachy_user_manual.pdf; technical reference manual https://clrp-code.github.io/egs_brachy/
History
Version v2017.09.15
- Initial beta release