Re: [fluka-discuss]: CT scan dose equivalent scoring

From: Cristina Bahamonde <cristina.bahamonde_at_utah.edu>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 12:24:29 -0600

Dear Andrea and all,

Attached is a dropbox link with my .flair, .inp, .vxl and .bnn files for
the project. If you need any other files to troubleshoot please let me know.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qpea0hrwe9axjsl/AACFE0bi1yGmEccrCoL7LXhRa?dl=0

Thanks

Cristina

2015-04-28 10:45 GMT-06:00 Cristina Bahamonde <cristina.bahamonde_at_utah.edu>:

> Attached is the .bnn for the CT scan project.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Cristina
>
> 2015-04-28 10:44 GMT-06:00 Cristina Bahamonde <cristina.bahamonde_at_utah.edu
> >:
>
> Dear Andrea and all,
>>
>> Attached is my flair project, input file and compressed .vxl. I'll send
>> the .bnn in the next email and I believe that should be all you need to
>> load the project but let me know if you need anything else.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Cristina
>>
>> 2015-04-28 0:16 GMT-06:00 <Andrea.Mairani_at_mi.infn.it>:
>>
>> Dear Cristina,
>>> can you provide us your input etc so we can look at your problem?
>>> Best regards,
>>> Andrea
>>> > Dear FLUKA experts,
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > I'm trying to get the total dose equivalent in pSv deposited in a
>>> CTSCAN
>>> > voxel geometry using the USRBIN card produced from the DICOM tool in
>>> > flair. My source is a sphere of alpha particles of 6.48MeV isotropic.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > When looking at the output file, stars are created but no dose appears
>>> > recorded in the voxels and no integrated dose over the volume appears
>>> in
>>> > the output either. Nevertheless, when I plot the fort 99 file using
>>> > Flair's
>>> > Plot tab the dose map is created with no issues and a maximum, minimum
>>> and
>>> > integral value are also calculated to be 0.029 pSv/primary and cm3.
>>> This
>>> > dose appears extremely low to me.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Also, no stars are recorded when I try to perform smaller runs, such as
>>> > 1000 primaries for example.
>>> >
>>> > Flair's output shows no anomalies and the .err file after the
>>> simulation
>>> > is
>>> > finished only shows the amount of stars produced.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks so much for your help
>>> >
>>> > Cristina
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>


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