Desenvolvimento do Software DoseCV

Abstract

This work presents the development of the DoseCV software, a free and non-commercial tool aimed at the automated processing of data from simulations in the MCNP code that use the Mesh-type Reference Computational Phantoms (MRCPs) described in ICRP Publication 145. The software performs calculations and provides Dose Coefficients (DC), Conversion Coefficients for Equivalent Dose (CC[HT]) and Effective Dose (CC[E]), as well as the Equivalent and Effective Doses to the user. The program was developed with the goal of facilitating and standardizing the extraction of results from the output files of the MCNP code, reducing the likelihood of human errors, and optimizing the time spent on repetitive analyses. DoseCV reads the simulated data, applies normalization factors, and automatically calculates the dosimetric quantity selected by the user, based on the conventions of the ICRP, presenting the results at different levels of granularity. Furthermore, the software can be implemented in other Monte Carlo codes with minor modifications. The tool was validated through the doctoral thesis of the student Valter José Coutinho Júnior, by means of comparisons with data from ICRP Publication 116, resulting in a relative error of less than 5% for most tissues simulated in anthropomorphic adult female and male phantoms. These results demonstrate the reliability of DoseCV in numerical dosimetry studies. Thus, DoseCV represents a significant contribution to the automation, standardization, and reproducibility of studies in the field of Medical Physics and related areas.