Overview of Geant4 applications in medical physics

Author

Archambault, L. ; Beaulieu, L. ; Carrier, J.F. ; Castrovillari, F. ; Chauvie, S. ; Foppiano, F. ; Ghiso, G. ; Guatelli, S. ; Incerti, S. ; Lamanna, E. ; Larsson, S. ; Lopes, M.C. ; Peralta, L. ; Pia, M.G. ; Rodrigues, P. ; Tremblay, V.H. ; Trindade, A.

Author_Institution

Laval Univ., Que., Canada

Volume

3

fYear

2003

fDate

19-25 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

1743

Abstract

We present a series of achievements associated with Geant4-based applications in medical physics and, in particular, in radiotherapy (external beams and brachytherapy), protontherapy, PEM, PET, MRT, metabolic therapy, IORT; projects in microdosimetry and radiobiology are beginning. The Geant4 CT-interface allows to reproduce realistically the patient anatomy, the integration to the GRID allows to run the applications sharing distributed computing resources. The Geant4 Medical Physics Group has born from the collaboration of Geant4 with several research and medical physics institutes in Europe.

Keywords

biological effects of ionising radiation; brachytherapy; computerised tomography; dosimetry; medical computing; positron emission tomography; Europe; GRID; Geant4 CT-interface; Geant4 Medical Physics Group; Geant4 applications; IORT; MRT; PEM; PET; brachytherapy; distributed computing resources; external beams; medical physics; medical physics institutes; metabolic therapy; microdosimetry; patient anatomy; protontherapy; radiobiology; radiotherapy; research institutes; Biological system modeling; Discrete event simulation; Electromagnetic radiation; Geometry; Kernel; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical simulation; Medical treatment; Physics; Solid modeling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2003 IEEE

ISSN

1082-3654

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8257-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2003.1352215

Filename

1352215