Joint ICTP-IAEA Workshop on Monte Carlo Radiation Transport and Associated Data Needs for Medical Applications | (smr 3148)
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08:30 - 18:00
Introduction
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08:30
Administrative Matters and Coffee
1h30'
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Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall
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Registration will be outside the Budinich Lecture Hall. If you have registered in the Guesthouse upon arrival, you do not need to register again. If receiving a perdiem, you can use this time to visit our Finance and Operations Office in the Enrico Fermi Building.
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10:00
Course Welcome and Presentation of Lecturers
30'
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10:30
History of Monte Carlo, EGS and BEAM
30'
Speaker: D.W.O. Rogers (Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada) -
11:00
History of EGSnrc and egs++
30'
Speaker: I. Kawrakow (Vicenza, Italy) -
11:30
Introduction to the Monte Carlo method
1h0'
Speaker: F. Tessier (National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada) - 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
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14:30
What’s in an EGSnrc application?
1h0'
Speaker: R. Townson (National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada) -
15:30
Photon physics
30' (
Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall
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Speaker: E. Mainegra-Hing (National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada) - 16:00 Coffee Break 30'
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16:30
Restricted stopping powers, AE and AP
45' (
Adriatico Guest House - Informatics Laboratory
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Speaker: D.W.O. Rogers -
17:15
PEGS4 data sets, pegsless mode and examin
45'
Speaker: E. Mainegra-Hing
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08:30
Administrative Matters and Coffee
1h30'
(
Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall
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08:30 - 18:00
Introduction
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09:00 - 18:00
Data and RZ applications
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09:00
Getting started: run your first EGSnrc application
1h30' (
Adriatico Guest House - Informatics Laboratory
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Speaker: F. Tessier - 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
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11:00
Create and examine PEGS4 data sets
1h30' (
Adriatico Guest House - Informatics Laboratory
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Speaker: E. Mainegra-Hing - 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
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14:30
Monte Carlo transport parameters
30'
Speaker: D.W.O. Rogers -
15:00
Electron physics
1h0'
Speaker: I. Kawrakow - 16:00 Coffee Break 30'
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16:30
EGSnrc RZ applications
1h0' (
Leonardo Building - Computer Lab
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Speaker: R. Townson -
17:30
EGSnrc RZ sources and normalization
30'
Speaker: E. Mainegra-Hing
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09:00
Getting started: run your first EGSnrc application
1h30' (
Adriatico Guest House - Informatics Laboratory
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09:00 - 18:00
Data and RZ applications
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09:00 - 18:00
Parameters and variance reduction
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09:00
Vary transport parameters
1h30' (
Adriatico Guest House - Informatics Laboratory
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Speaker: F. Tessier - 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
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11:00
Run EGSnrc RZ applications
1h30' (
Adriatico Guest House - Informatics Laboratory
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Speaker: R. Townson - 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
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14:30
Statistical uncertainties in EGSnrc applications
30'
Speaker: D.W.O. Rogers -
15:00
Variance reduction techniques
1h0'
Speaker: I. Karakow - 16:00 Coffee Break 30'
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16:30
Introduction to BEAMnrc
1h0' (
Leonardo Building - Computer Lab
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Speaker: D.W.O. Rogers -
17:30
BEAMnrc main inputs
30'
Speaker: F. Tessier
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09:00
Vary transport parameters
1h30' (
Adriatico Guest House - Informatics Laboratory
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09:00 - 18:00
Parameters and variance reduction
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09:00 - 18:00
BEAMnrc
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09:00
Explore calculation efficiency and variance reduction
1h30' (
Adriatico Guest House - Informatics Laboratory
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Speaker: E. Mainegra-Hing - 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
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11:00
Run BEAMnrc simulation examples
1h30' (
Adriatico Guest House - Informatics Laboratory
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Speaker: B. Walters - 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
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14:30
BEAMnrc sources
30' (
Leonardo Building - Computer Lab
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Speaker: B. Walters -
15:00
BEAMnrc component modules
1h0'
Speaker: B. Walters - 16:00 Coffee Break 30'
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16:30
Phase space files
1h0' (
Leonardo Building - Computer Lab
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Speaker: F. Tessier -
17:30
Phase space file analysis with beamdp
30'
Speaker: R. Townson
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09:00
Explore calculation efficiency and variance reduction
1h30' (
Adriatico Guest House - Informatics Laboratory
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09:00 - 18:00
BEAMnrc
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09:00 - 18:00
Phase space files and BEAMnrc variance reduction
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09:00
Create your own BEAMnrc accelerator
1h30' (
Adriatico Guest House - Informatics Laboratory
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Speaker: B. Walters - 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
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11:00
Analyze phase space files with BEAMDP
1h30' (
Adriatico Guest House - Informatics Laboratory
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Speaker: B. Walters - 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
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14:30
Variance reduction in BEAMnrc and DOSXYZnrc
1h30'
Speaker: D.W.O. Rogers - 16:00 Coffee Break 30'
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16:30
DOSXYZnrc dose calculation in a phantom
1h0' (
Leonardo Building - Computer Lab
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Speaker: B. Walters -
17:30
Dose analysis and visualization tools
30'
Speaker: R. Townson
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09:00
Create your own BEAMnrc accelerator
1h30' (
Adriatico Guest House - Informatics Laboratory
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09:00 - 18:00
Phase space files and BEAMnrc variance reduction
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09:00 - 18:00
DOSXYZnrc
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09:00
Investigate variance reduction in BEAMnrc
1h30' (
Adriatico Guest House - Informatics Laboratory
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Speaker: B. Walters - 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
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11:00
Calculate dose in a phantom with DOSXYZnrc
1h30' (
Adriatico Guest House - Informatics Laboratory
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Speaker: E. Mainegra-Hing - 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
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14:30
DOSXYZnrc calculations with CT input
30'
Speaker: B. Walters -
15:00
Phase space sources and BEAMnrc shared library sources
1h0'
Speaker: R. Townson - 16:00 Coffee Break 30'
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16:30
Run advanced DOSXYZnrc simulations
1h30' (
Adriatico Guest House - Informatics Laboratory
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Speaker: B. Walters
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09:00
Investigate variance reduction in BEAMnrc
1h30' (
Adriatico Guest House - Informatics Laboratory
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09:00 - 18:00
DOSXYZnrc
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09:00 - 18:00
Introduction to egs++
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09:00
Fundamental geometry definition: howfar() and hownear()
30'
Speaker: R. Townson -
09:30
egs++: the EGSnrc C++ library
1h0'
Speaker: F. Tessier - 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
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11:00
Build an ionization chamber model in egs++
1h30' (
Adriatico Guest House - Informatics Laboratory
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Speaker: F. Tessier - 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
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14:30
egs++ particle sources
30'
Speaker: R. Townson -
15:00
EGSnrc scoring and egs++ ausgab objects
1h0'
Speaker: E. Mainegra-Hing - 16:00 Coffee Break 30'
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16:30
Investigate egs++ sources and ausgab scoring objects
1h30' (
Adriatico Guest House - Informatics Laboratory
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Speaker: E. Mainegra-Hing
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09:00
Fundamental geometry definition: howfar() and hownear()
30'
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09:00 - 18:00
Introduction to egs++
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09:00 - 18:00
egs++ applications: egs chamber
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09:00
egs++ applications
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Speaker: F. Tessier -
09:30
egs++ applications: egs chamber
1h0'
Speaker: F. Tessier - 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
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11:00
Calculate chamber correction factors with egs chamber
1h30' (
Adriatico Guest House - Informatics Laboratory
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Speaker: F. Tessier - 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
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14:30
EGSnrc transport in a magnetic field
1h0'
Speaker: D.W.O. Rogers -
15:30
Advanced variance reduction techniques in egs chamber
30'
Speaker: F. Tessier - 16:00 Coffee Break 30'
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16:30
Variance reduction techniques with egs chamber
1h30' (
Adriatico Guest House - Informatics Laboratory
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Speaker: F. Tessier
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09:00
egs++ applications
30'
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09:00 - 18:00
egs++ applications: egs chamber
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09:00 - 18:00
egs++ applications: egs fac, egs cbct, egs brachy
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09:00
egs++ applications: egs fac and egs cbct
1h30'
Speaker: E. Mainegra-Hing - 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
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11:00
Model CBCT scans of a human head using egs cbct
1h30' (
Adriatico Guest House - Informatics Laboratory
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Speaker: E. Mainegra-Hing - 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
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14:30
egs++ application: egs brachy
1h30'
Speaker: M. Chamberland (BC Caner Agency, Vancouver, Canada) - 16:00 Coffee Break 30'
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16:30
Model an LDR brachytherapy treatment with egs brachy
1h30' (
Adriatico Guest House - Informatics Laboratory
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Speaker: M. Chamberland
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09:00
egs++ applications: egs fac and egs cbct
1h30'
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09:00 - 18:00
egs++ applications: egs fac, egs cbct, egs brachy
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09:00 - 18:00
EGSnrc installation
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09:00
EGSnrc installation and configuration
45'
Speaker: E. Mainegra-Hing -
09:45
Practice installing and configuring EGSnrc
45' (
Adriatico Guest House - Informatics Laboratory
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Speaker: E. Mainegra-Hing - 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
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11:00
Accuracy and systematic uncertainties of EGSnrc calculations
1h30'
Speaker: D.W.O. Rogers - 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
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14:30
Open lab session
2h0' (
Adriatico Guest House - Informatics Laboratory
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09:00
EGSnrc installation and configuration
45'
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09:00 - 18:00
EGSnrc installation