This is a beta release of egs_brachy, an egs++ application for rapid brachytherapy dose calculations. Some features of egs_brachy include:
- Dose scoring via a tracklength estimator or interaction scoring
- Scoring of the spectrum of particles emitted from a source or particle fluence in a voxel
- Primary and scatter separated dose calculations
- Particle recycling for simulations with multiple sources
- Bremsstrahlung cross section enhancement, uniform bremsstrahlung splitting, and Russian Roulette for efficient electronic brachytherapy simulations.
- A comprehensive library of brachytherapy source geometries,
egs_brachy is available as free and open-source software on GitHub with associated documentation; see, for instance, the egs_brachy paper published in Phys. Med. Biol. in 2016⇓, the egs_brachy user manual⇓, the egs_brachy technical reference manual, or the 2025 Med. Phys. paper about an egs_brachy user interface.
History
Version v2017.09.15
- Initial beta release