EFFECT OF INTENSE MAGNETIC FIELDS ON THE TRAJECTORY OF ELECTRONS PROPAGATING IN LOW DENSITY MEDIA OF INTEREST FOR MRI-LINAC RADIOTHERAPY EFECTO DE CAMPOS MAGNÉTICOS INTENSOS SOBRE LA TRAYECTORIA DE ELECTRONES PROPAGÁNDOSE EN MEDIOS MATERIALES DE BAJA DENSIDAD DE INTERÉS PARA RADIOTERAPIA MRI-LINAC

GAYOL, A.; VALENTE, M.

Anales de la Asociacion Fisica Argentina

Centro de Investigaciones en Laseres y Aplicaciones

Lugar: Tandil; Año: 2023 vol. 34 p. 65 - 70

Ionizing radiation transport mechanisms in presence of magnetic fields can be described in terms of formalisms based on the Boltzmann radiation transport equation. However, when the transport occurs not in vacuum but in scattering media the difficulty of its analytical calculation considerably increases because of the random character of the radiation interaction processes with the scattering medium. In this context, the present work proposes and describe a methodology to characterize effects due to strong magnetic fields on electron trajectories by means of numerical techniques, such as Monte Carlo simulation, to be applied to scattering media, typically present in MRI-LINAC devices in radiotherapy situations. The obtained results for air as the scattering material show that variations of the electrons’ trajectories depend jointly on the magnetic field and the interactions with the scattering medium. Increasing the magnetic field intensity enhances the curvature of the trajectories while decreasing the displacement in the radial direction.