Speaker
Shannon Jarvis
Description
Brachytherapy is a type of radiation therapy where radioactive sources are placed near or within a tumor. Patient treatment plans are developed and assessed by calculating the dose; the amount of energy deposited from radiation per unit mass of tissue. The Carleton Laboratory for Radiotherapy Physics (CLRP) group has developed a dose calculation algorithm, called egs_brachy, which is used for brachytherapy treatments. My role has been to create an application, called egs_brachy GUI (Guided User Interface) to extend egs_brachy for use in clinical applications. I will give an overview of egs_brachy GUI and discuss its process.
