Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2003 IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8257-9
DOI :
10.1109/NSSMIC.2003.1352215
