Publications in collaboration with researchers from Hospital Regional Universitario de Málaga (16)

2024

  1. Monte Carlo calculation of the photon beam quality correction factor kQ,Q0 for ionization chambers of very small volume: Use of variance reduction techniques driven with an ant colony algorithm

    Radiation Physics and Chemistry, Vol. 225

2023

  1. Bremsstrahlung production from 10–30 MeV electrons incident on thick targets: Monte Carlo simulation with PENELOPE

    Radiation Physics and Chemistry, Vol. 208

2021

  1. Variance-Reduction Methods for Monte Carlo Simulation of Radiation Transport

    Frontiers in Physics, Vol. 9

2020

  1. Simple variance reduction in Monte Carlo calculations of specific absorbed fractions: Russian roulette and splitting at the source organ

    Biomedical Physics and Engineering Express, Vol. 6, Núm. 3

2015

  1. Monte Carlo calculation of specific absorbed fractions: Variance reduction techniques

    Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 60, Núm. 7, pp. 2625-2644

2010

  1. Ant colony algorithm implementation in electron and photon Monte Carlo transport: Application to the commissioning of radiosurgery photon beams

    Medical Physics, Vol. 37, Núm. 7, pp. 3782-3790

  2. Ant colony method to control variance reduction techniques in the Monte Carlo simulation of clinical electron linear accelerators of use in cancer therapy

    Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

2009

  1. Ant colony algorithm implementation in commissioning radiosurgery photon beams for Monte Carlo treatment planning

    IFMBE Proceedings

  2. Monte Carlo simulation using the PENELOPE code with an ant colony algorithm to study MOSFET detectors

    Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 54, Núm. 20, pp. 6263-6276

  3. Multiple scattering of 13 and 20 MeV electrons by thin foils: A monte carlo study with GEANT, geant4, and PENELOPE

    Medical Physics, Vol. 36, Núm. 9, pp. 3964-3970

2008

  1. Effect of the multiple scattering of electrons in Monte Carlo simulation of LINACS

    Radiotherapy and Oncology, Vol. 86, Núm. 1, pp. 104-108

  2. Monte Carlo simulation of the electron transport through air slabs: A comparative study of PENELOPE, GEANT3, Geant4 and EGSnrc Monte Carlo codes

    IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

2007

  1. Ant colony method to control variance reduction techniques in the Monte Carlo simulation of clinical electron linear accelerators

    Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 580, Núm. 1 SPEC. ISS., pp. 510-513

  2. Effect of the electron transport through thin slabs on the simulation of linear electron accelerators of use in therapy: A comparative study of various Monte Carlo codes

    Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 580, Núm. 1 SPEC. ISS., pp. 153-156

  3. Monte Carlo simulation of the electron transport through thin slabs: A comparative study of penelope, geant3, geant4, egsnrc and mcnpx

    Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, Vol. 254, Núm. 2, pp. 219-230

2003

  1. Dosimetry for radiocolloid therapy of cystic craniopharyngiomas

    Medical Physics, Vol. 30, Núm. 9, pp. 2482-2492