Validation of recent Geant4 physics models for application in carbon ion therapy

Lechner, Anton; Ivanchenko, V. N.; Knobloch, J.

doi:10.1016/j.nimb.2010.04.008

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“…Major updates of software for ion transport 7) are aimed to improve models for energy loss which is the most important factor to determine depth-dose distribution as follows. First of all, numerical tables of stopping powers as a function of energy for all ion-material combinations available in the ICRU 73 8,9) report are built in Geant4.…”

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Validation of New Geant4 Electromagnetic Physics Models for Ion Therapy Applications

Toshito¹,

Bagulya²,

Lechner

et al. 2011

Progress in Nuclear Science and Technology

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We have developed simulation codes to handle electromagnetic process in Geant4 in an attempt to improve the accuracy of dose calculations for ion radiotherapy. Geant4 is a Monte Carlo simulation toolkit for simulating the passage of particles through matter, and capable of handling all physics processes including electromagnetic, hadronic and nucleus-nucleus interactions which are indispensable to calculate three-dimensional dose distributions in ion therapy. In this work we report the recent progress for Geant4 models for ions and new validation results, which were obtained for depth-dose distributions of carbon ions incident on water against experimental measurements. We found simulations to reproduce the experimental data fairly well.

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Validation of New Geant4 Electromagnetic Physics Models for Ion Therapy Applications

Toshito¹,

Bagulya²,

Lechner

et al. 2011

Progress in Nuclear Science and Technology

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“…Geant4 is used because of its powerful abilities to simulate all type of particles, greater flexibility, can simulating various geometric variations and different types of physical interactions process and it became the powerful tools for the study of interaction in the fields of medical physics, radiation protection, high energy physics and nuclear physics etc. Many literatures show the Geant4 studies based on Geant4 simulations had good agreement with the experimental results [8][9][10][11].…”

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Contributions of secondary fragmentation by carbon ion beams in water phantom: Monte Carlo simulation

Ying

Bolst

Tran

et al. 2017

J. Phys.: Conf. Ser.

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“…in the space and medical domains 36 . A recent example is using Geant4 to evaluate the benefits of carbon ion therapy for cancer treatment 37 .…”

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Four Decades of Computing in Subnuclear Physics – from Bubble Chamber to LHC

Knobloch¹

2014

What We Would Like LHC to Give Us

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This manuscript addresses selected aspects of computing for the reconstruction and simulation of particle interactions in subnuclear physics. Based on personal experience with experiments at DESY and at CERN, I cover the evolution of computing hardware and software from the era of track chambers where interactions were recorded on photographic film up to the LHC experiments with their multi-million electronic channels.

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Validation of recent Geant4 physics models for application in carbon ion therapy

Cited by 68 publications

References 65 publications

Validation of New Geant4 Electromagnetic Physics Models for Ion Therapy Applications

Validation of New Geant4 Electromagnetic Physics Models for Ion Therapy Applications

Contributions of secondary fragmentation by carbon ion beams in water phantom: Monte Carlo simulation

Four Decades of Computing in Subnuclear Physics – from Bubble Chamber to LHC

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