Results and lessons learned from the Generation IV SCWR-FQT comprehensive Monte Carlo computational benchmark

Evaluating deposited radiation energy amount and collision quantities of small-molecule radiosensitizers through Monte Carlo simulations

“…A water phantom is widely accepted as a surrogate for human tissue due to its similar radiological properties, such as electron density and effective atomic number, which closely match those of soft tissue. The dimensions we selected (a spherical field with a diameter of 5 cm within a larger 15 × 15 × 15 cm water phantom) are consistent with those used in previous studies aimed at evaluating radiation dose distributions and interactions within a homogeneous medium [ 34 , [35] , [36] , [37] ]. These parameters were carefully chosen to replicate a clinical scenario and ensure that the energy deposition values obtained from the MCNP code were appropriately normalized to the number of initial particles.…”