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Monte Carlo calculation is a frequently used method for treatment planning for BNCT. In MacNCTPlan from Harvard/MIT,1 the calculational part is performed with Monte Carlo N-Particle (MCNP). As the lengthy calculation times make the standard MCNP inconvenient for routine application, acceleration of the computational part is preferable. The acceleration of the treatment planning program makes it also useful to perform at the same time a simulation of prompt gamma-ray measurements with the gamma-ray telescope.2,3 This has been proved by adding the description of a germanium detector in the MCNP model that is made by MacNCTPlan.
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Verbakel, W.F.A.R., Verwey, J.A.A., Stecher-Rasmussen, F., Hogenbirk, A. (2001). Acceleration of MCNP-Based Treatment Planning and the Application for In Vivo Boron Determination by the Gamma-Ray Telescope. In: Hawthorne, M.F., Shelly, K., Wiersema, R.J. (eds) Frontiers in Neutron Capture Therapy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1285-1_23
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