Author

Ernesto Mainegra‐Hing

Observed names: E Mainegra, E Mainegra-Hing, E Mainegra‐Hing, E. Mainegra, E. Mainegra-Hing, E. Mainegra‐Hing, ERNESTO MAINEGRA, Ernesto Mainegra, Ernesto Mainegra Hing, Ernesto Mainegra-Hing, Mainegra, E., Mainegra-Hing, E., Mainegra-Hing, Ernesto

Institution: National Research Council Canada

Observed institutions: Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa Hospital, Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, National Research Council Canada, Centro de Aplicaciones Tecnológicas y Desarrollo Nuclear, McGill University, Carleton University

ORCID: 0000-0002-4539-1282

Observed ORCID: 0000-0002-4539-1282

OpenAlex ID: A5011027134

The EGSnrc Code System: Monte Carlo Simulation of Electron and Photon Transport

2016 · I. Kawrakow, Ernesto Mainegra‐Hing, et al. · NPARC · 994

Radiation attenuation by lead and nonlead materials used in radiation shielding garments

2007 · J. P. McCaffrey, H. Shen, et al. · Medical Physics · 353

NRC User Codes for EGSnrc

2010 · D. W. O. Rogers, I. Kawrakow, et al. · NPARC · 150

Monte Carlo reference data sets for imaging research: Executive summary of the report of AAPM Research Committee Task Group 195

2015 · Ioannis Sechopoulos, Elsayed S. M. Ali, et al. · Medical Physics · 109

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Optimizing non‐Pb radiation shielding materials using bilayers

2009 · J. P. McCaffrey, E. Mainegra‐Hing, et al. · Medical Physics · 106

Ionization chamber dosimetry of small photon fields: a Monte Carlo study on stopping-power ratios for radiosurgery and IMRT beams

2003 · F S nchez-Doblado, P Andreo, et al. · Physics in Medicine and Biology · 106

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Efficient x-ray tube simulations

2006 · Ernesto Mainegra-Hing, Iwan Kawrakow · Medical Physics · 93

Variance reduction techniques for fast Monte Carlo CBCT scatter correction calculations

2010 · Ernesto Mainegra-Hing, Iwan Kawrakow · Physics in Medicine and Biology · 76

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Calculation of photon energy deposition kernels and electron dose point kernels in water

2005 · Ernesto Mainegra‐Hing, D. W. O. Rogers, et al. · Medical Physics · 74

Calculations for plane-parallel ion chambers in 60Co beams using the EGSnrc Monte Carlo code

2003 · Ernesto Mainegra-Hing, Iwan Kawrakow, et al. · Medical Physics · 63

Fast Monte Carlo calculation of scatter corrections for CBCT images

2008 · E Mainegra-Hing, I Kawrakow · Journal of Physics Conference Series · 59

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Hounsfield unit recovery in clinical cone beam CT images of the thorax acquired for image guided radiation therapy

2016 · Rune Slot Thing, Uffe Bernchou, et al. · Physics in Medicine and Biology · 49

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Comparison between EGSnrc, Geant4, MCNP5 and Penelope for mono-energetic electron beams

2015 · John Paul Archambault, Ernesto Mainegra-Hing · Physics in Medicine and Biology · 46

On the accuracy of techniques for obtaining the calibration coefficient NK of Ir192 HDR brachytherapy sources

2006 · Ernesto Mainegra-Hing, D. W. O. Rogers · Medical Physics · 37

EGSnrcMP: the multi-platform environment for EGSnrc

· Kawrakow, I., Mainegra-Hing, E., et al. · NPARC · 36

Dose rate constants for125I,103Pd,192Ir and169Yb brachytherapy sources: an EGS4 Monte Carlo study

1998 · Ernesto Mainegra, Roberto Capote, et al. · Physics in Medicine and Biology · 34

Patient-specific scatter correction in clinical cone beam computed tomography imaging made possible by the combination of Monte Carlo simulations and a ray tracing algorithm

2013 · Rune S. Thing, Uffe Bernchou, et al. · Acta Oncologica · 31

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Electron accelerator-based production of molybdenum-99: Bremsstrahlung and photoneutron generation from molybdenum vs. tungsten

2015 · A. Tsechanski, A.F. Bielajew, et al. · Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms · 29

A study of Type B uncertainties associated with the photoelectric effect in low-energy Monte Carlo simulations

2021 · Christian Valdes-Cortez, Iymad Mansour, et al. · Physics in Medicine and Biology · 24

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Radial dose functions for103Pd,125I,169Yb and192Ir brachytherapy sources: an EGS4 Monte Carlo study

2000 · Ernesto Mainegra, Roberto Capote, et al. · Physics in Medicine and Biology · 24

The WinALPHA code for the analysis of alpha-particle spectra

2004 · Roberto Capote Noy, Eduardo Garcı́a-Toraño, et al. · Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment · 22

Novel approach for the Monte Carlo calculation of free-air chamber correction factors

2008 · Ernesto Mainegra-Hing, Nick Reynaert, et al. · Medical Physics · 21

Implementation of an efficient Monte Carlo calculation for CBCT scatter correction: phantom study

2015 · Peter G.F. Watson, Ernesto Mainegra‐Hing, et al. · Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics · 20

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Optimizing cone beam CT scatter estimation in egs_cbct for a clinical and virtual chest phantom

2014 · Rune Slot Thing, Ernesto Mainegra-Hing · Medical Physics · 20

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Evidence for using Monte Carlo calculated wall attenuation and scatter correction factors for three styles of graphite-walled ion chamber

2004 · J P McCaffrey, E Mainegra-Hing, et al. · Physics in Medicine and Biology · 19

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Works count: 68

Citation count: 2,720

H-index: 21

I10-index: 30