A visualization application on mobile devices for Geant4-based radiotherapy simulation

Author

Kimura, Akihiro ; Tanaka, Shoji ; Hasegawa, Kiyotomo ; Sasaki, T.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Ashikaga Inst. of Technol., Ashikaga, Japan

fYear

2012

fDate

Oct. 27 2012-Nov. 3 2012

Firstpage

2016

Lastpage

2018

Abstract

Geant4 has been widely used in medical physics applications. It takes charge of the important role in radiotherapy in order to precisely evaluate dose distributions in an irradiated patient or to optimize devices of a beam delivery system. Geant4 is a toolkit for the Monte Carlo simulation of the passage of particles through matter. We describe application software on mobile devices, which is a volume visualizer for the Geant4-based radiotherapy simulation. It is named as gMocren. To visualize volume data on mobile devices is challenging, because mobile devices that has only fewer resources than ones of a recent personal computer. However they provide a useful and friendly user interface. gMocren on mobile devices is useful to confirm anywhere a result of the simulation in a PC network.

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; dosimetry; radiation therapy; Geant4-based radiotherapy simulation; Monte Carlo simulation; beam delivery system; dose distribution; gMocren; irradiated patient; medical physics application; mobile devices; visualization application; volume visualizer;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2012 IEEE

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA

ISSN

1082-3654

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2028-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2012.6551466

Filename

6551466