Benchmarking

One of the primary tasks of RPSMUG is to initiate and complete benchmarking exercises with high-energy electron beams and gamma rays to compare:

• Calculated absorbed dose distributions obtained using different Monte Carlo Radiation Transport Codes; and
• Measured dose distributions obtained via irradiation experiments

The first experimental procedures was at Mediscan, Austria using two nominal 10 MeV accelerator systems: 15 kW Titan TB-10/15 Linac and 35 kW IBA Rhodotron TT-100.

Responsibilities for the first benchmarking experiment:

● Project Leaders: Josef Mittendorfer, Mike Saylor

● Execution of Protocol Studies: (TEAM)

● Operation of Electron Beam Accelerator: Mediscan Personnel

● Data Analysis / Summary Report: (TEAM)

● Physical Measurements and Modeling Publications: All active participants

On 2007 October 25 at the RPSMUG Annual General Meeting (AGM) Josef Mittendorfer presented the draft report, "Benchmarking Dose Predictions in Electron Beam: TT-100 Experiment and Modeling Report".

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