Publications

Selected Publications
		O. Vassiliev, T. Wareing, J. McGhee, G. Failla, M. Salehpour, F. Mourtada, ‘Validation of a new grid-based Boltzmann equation solver for dose calculation in radiotherapy with photon beams’, Phys. Med. Biol. (55) 581-598, 2010.
		W. Arter (UKAEA), M. Loughlin (ITER), ‘Radiation transport analysis for IFMIF design by the Attila software using a Monte-Carlo source model’, Fusion Eng. Des. (2008), doi:10.1016/j.fusengdes.2008.11.051
		E. Smith, E. Miller, R. Wittman, M. Shaver (PNNL), 'Coupled Deterministic-Monte Carlo Transport for Radiation Portal Monitoring', The 2008 ANS Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, June 8-12, 2008.
		R. Haley (Nuclear Technologies, plc.), J. Haworth, A. Cooper (Sellafield, Ltd.), 'The use of Attila in Adjoint Mode to Demonstrate the Adequacy of a Criticality Incident Detection (CID) System', ICRS-11, Callaway Gardens, GA, April 13-18, 2008.
		L. Delgove, J. Murillo, D. Kerouanton, E. Castanier, N. Raimondi, H. Ismael (AREVA SGN), 'Evaluating the use of Attila Radiation Transport Code in the Nuclear Cycle Scope:', ICRS-11, Callaway Gardens, GA, April 13-18, 2008.
		Joshi, A., J. Rasmussen, E. Sevick-Muraca, T. Wareing, J. McGhee, 'Radiative Transport Based Frequency Domain Fluorescence Tomography', Phys. Med. Biol. Vol. 53, No. 8, p2069-2088, 21 April 2008.
		K. Gifford, M. Price, J. Horton, T. Wareing, F. Mourtada, 'Optimization of deterministic transport parameters for the calculation of the dose distribution around a high dose-rate 192Ir brachytherapy source' Med. Phys. 35(6):2279-2285, 2008.
		O. Vassiliev, T. Wareing, I. Davis, J. McGhee, D. Barnett, J. Horton, K. Gifford, G. Failla, U. Titt, F. Mourtada, 'Feasibility of a Multigroup Deterministic Solution Method for 3D Radiotherapy Dose Calculations', International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, and Physics, Vol. 72, Issue 1, p220-227, 1 Sep 2008.
		Joshi, A., J. Rasmussen, S. Kwon, T. Wareing, J. McGhee, E. Sevick- Muraca, 'Multi-modality CT-PET-NIR Fluorescence Tomography', The 5th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Paris, France, May 14-17, 2008.
		A. Murfin, ‘Shielding assessment of a variety of transport flasks carrying mixed oxide fuel of vitrified residue on board the Pacific Heron Ship’, The 15th International Symposium on the Packaging and Transportation of Radioactive Materials, Miami, FL, 2007.
		K. Gifford, ‘Attila: A Deterministic Transport Code Applied to Radiotherapy Calculations’, Journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology, Vol. 84, Supplement 1, September, 2007.
		K. Gifford, S. Kirsner, J. Horton, T. Wareing, F. Mourtada, 'Calculation of the Dose Distribution Around a Commercially Available 125I Brachytherapy Source Via a Multi-Group Discrete Ordinates Method', American Association of Physicists in Medicine Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, 2007.
		T. Wareing, O. Vassiliev, G. Failla, F. Mourtada, I. Davis, J. Horton, J. McGhee, D. Barnett, 'Validation of a Prototype Deterministic Solver for Photon Beam Dose Calculations on Acquired CT Data in the Presence of Narrow Beams and Heterogeneities', American Association of Physicists in Medicine Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, 2007.
		M.Z. Youssef, P. Batistoni, L. Patrizzi, T. Wareing, I. M. Davis, 'Comparing the prediction of Attila code to the experimental data of fusion integral experiments, and to the results of MCNP code', Fusion Science and Technology (in publication), 2007.
		M.Z. Youssef, R. Feder, T. Wareing, 'Benchmarking the CAD-based ATTILA discrete ordinates code with experimental data of fusion experiments and to the results of MCNP code in simulating ITER', The 13th International Conference on Emerging Nuclear Energy Systems - ICENES-2007, June 3-8, 2007, Istanbul, Turkey.
		J.J. Bergman, T.S. Palmer, 'A Computational Dosimetric Comparison Between MCNPX and Attila of the Mammosite Radiation Therapy System', Joint International Topical Meeting on Mathematics & Computation and Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications (M&C + SNA 2007), Monterey, California, April 15-19, 2007.
		J. Rasmussen, T. Pan, A. Joshi, T. Wareing, J. McGhee, E. Sevick- Muraca, 'Comparison of Radiative Transport, Monte Carlo, and Diffusion Forward Models for Small Animal Optical Tomography', 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, April 12-15, 2007, Washington D.C.
		T. Wareing, J. McGhee, A. Barnett, G. Failla, I. Davis, 'Capabilities of Attila for Radiation Protection and Shielding', invited paper presented at American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting, Albuuerque, NM, November 12-16, 2006.
		J. Rasmussen, A. Joshi, T. Pan, T. Wareing, J. McGhee, E. Sevick-Muraca, 'Radiative transport in fluorescence-enhanced frequency domain photon migration', Med. Phys., 33(12): 4685-4700, 2006.
		K. Gifford, J. Horton, T. Wareing, G. Failla, F. Mourtada, 'Comparison of a finite-element multigroup discrete-ordinates code with Monte Carlo for radiotherapy calculations', Phys. Med. Biol., May 7;51(9):2253-65.
		A. Joshi, J. Rasmussen, and E.M. Sevick-Muraca, 'Radiative transport based small animal fluorescence tomography with X-ray computed tomography priors', SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, Photonics West: Optical Tomography and Spectroscopy of Tissue VI, San Jose, CA, 2006.
		T. Wareing, G. Failla, O. Vassiliev, D. Barnett, J. McGhee, U. Titt, J. Horton, F. Mourtada, 'Performance Assessment of a Deterministic Method for Incorporating Coupled Photon-Electron Transport for Photon Beam Dose Calculations on Acquired CT Data', American Association of Physicists in Medicine Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL, 2006.
		D.S. Lucas, 'Core Modeling of the Advanced Test Reactor with the Attila Code', M&C 2005: International Topical Meeting on Mathematics and Computation, Supercomputing, Reactor Physics, and Nuclear and Biological Applications, Avignon, France, 2005.
		S.T. Keller, T.S. Palmer, 'Modeling a TRIGA Mark II Reactor Using the Attila Three-Dimensional Deterministic Transport Code', M&C 2005: International Topical Meeting on Mathematics and Computation, Supercomputing, Reactor Physics, and Nuclear and Biological Applications, Avignon, France, 2005.
		M. Loughlin, T. Wareing, A. Barnett, G. Failla, J. McGhee, 'Comparison of Attila and MCNP for Fusion Applications', M&C 2005: International Topical Meeting on Mathematics and Computation, Supercomputing, Reactor Physics, and Nuclear and Biological Applications, Avignon, France, 2005.
		'Benchmark on Deterministic Transport Calculations Without Spatial Homogenisation: MOX Fuel Assembly 3-D Extension Case', Nuclear Energy Agency-Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development, Nuclear Science NEA/NSC/DOC(2005)16.
		E.M. Sevick-Muraca, J.C. Rasmussen and A. Joshi, 'Weighted back projection based small animal fluorescence tomography', SPIE Photonics West: Optical Tomography and Spectroscopy of Tissue VI, San Jose, CA, 2005.
		J.C. Rasmussen, A Joshi, T. Pan, E.M. Sevick-Muraca, J. McGhee, T. Wareing and G. Failla, 'Small animal fluorescence tomography based on radiative transport equation and time dependent measurements', 4th Annual Conference of Society of Molecular Imaging, Cologne, Germany, 2005.
		C.J. Gesh, G.H. Meriwether, R.T. Pagh, L.E. Smith, 'Coupled Deterministic/Monte Carlo Simulation of Radiation Transport and Detector Response (Invited)', American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting, Washington D.C., 2005.
		L.E. Smith, C.J. Gesh, R.T. Pagh, “Transport Method Challenges in Radiation Detection Scenario Analysis (Invited)”, American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting, Washington D.C., 2005.
		'Venus-2 MOX-fuelled Reactor Dosimetry Calculations', Nuclear Energy Agency-Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development, Nuclear Science NEA/NSC/DOC(2005)22.
		J.C. Rasmussen, A Joshi, E.M. Sevick-Muraca, J. McGhee, T. Wareing and G. Failla, 'Small animal fluorescence tomography: part-1', 3rd Annual Conference of Society of Molecular Imaging, St.Louis. MO, 2004.
		T. Wareing, J. Horton, F. Mourtada, J. McGhee, D. Barnett, G. Failla, R. Mohan, 'Investigation of a Deterministic Method Incorporating Coupled Photon-Electron Transport for Photon Beam Dose Calculations in the Presence of Heterogeneities', American Association of Physicists in Medicine Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, 2004.
		F. Mourtada, T. Wareing, J. Horton, J. McGhee, D. Barnett, G. Failla, R. Mohan, 'A Deterministic Dose Calculation Method with Analytic Ray Tracing for Brachytherapy Dose Calculations', American Association of Physicists in Medicine Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, 2004.
		F. Mourtada, T. Wareing, J. Horton, J. McGhee, D. Barnett, K. Gifford, G. Failla, R. Mohan, 'A Deterministic Dose Calculation Method Applied to the Dosimetry of Shielded Intracavitary Brachytherapy Applicators', American Association of Physicists in Medicine Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, 2004.
		'Benchmark on Deterministic Transport Calculations Without Spatial Homogenisation: 1 2-3/3-D MOX Fuel Assembly Benchmark', Nuclear Energy Agency-Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development, Nuclear Science NEA/NSC/DOC(2003)16.
		T.A. Wareing, J.M. McGhee, J.E. Morel, S.D. Pautz, 'Discontinuous Finite Element Sn Methods on Three-Dimensional Unstructured Grids', Nucl. Sci. Engr., Vol. 138, Number 2, July 2001.
		T.A. Wareing, J.E. Morel, J.M. McGhee, 'Coupled Electron-Photon Transport Methods on 3-D Unstructured Grids', Trans Am. Nucl. Soc., Washington D.C., Vol 83, 2000.