Your first study
Explore a result in the browser
Open the workbench and choose Load example bundle in the dose workspace. Inspect the boron, nitrogen, hydrogen and photon components, then the physical total and its normalization.
Use the tri-planar view to locate regions and compare component distributions. A bundled result is a particular recorded calculation; opening it does not solve a new transport problem.
Run a synthetic CT-to-report study
Use a current source-built CLI for this workflow. From a working directory with fresh output names:
openbnct benchmark generate study/
openbnct project init --dicom study --output p001 --target CORE --spacing-mm 8
openbnct project run p001
This generates synthetic NF-BNCT-001 imaging and initializes a demonstration project. Its tissue calibration, beam and boron assumptions are example inputs. It is not a patient study.
The calculation can take several minutes with a release build. Read p001/out/report.md or report.json; per-structure DVH curves are under p001/out/dvh/.
Inspect and revise
The project report lists component means and dose-volume statistics, convergence status, normalization and exact step commands. Check all of these before interpreting a total.
Edit p001/project.toml to change an explicit study assumption. openbnct project status p001 shows its steps; project run resumes unchanged steps and recalculates affected outputs. Preserve a copy when comparing alternatives.
The current project default uses histogram-bin source weighting and transports capture photons separately. Disabling photon transport changes the photon-dose model to local deposition.
Compare independently
With OpenMC 0.16.0 and the declared processed library configured:
openbnct project verify p001 --particles 1e6
The report gains component ratios, statistical uncertainty, gamma results and an explicit verification verdict. A completed run can disagree with the deterministic calculation. See benchmarks before interpreting this result.
Next: read your results, then bring your own inputs.