TY - GEN
T1 - Particles Simulation Through Matter in Medical Physics Using the Geant4 Toolkit: From Conventional to Laser-Driven Hadrontherapy
AU - Cirrone, G. A.P.
AU - Cuttone, G.
AU - Pandola, L.
AU - Margarone, D.
AU - Petringa, G.
PY - 2019/9/6
Y1 - 2019/9/6
N2 - Monte Carlo simulation represents nowadays one of the powerful approach for the simulation of very complex environments like those typical of medical physics where, in general, an accurate simulation of the involved radiation beams and of the patients are required to fully reproduce a clinical case. It since from 1963, when Berger introduced the condensed approach for the simulation of electron interaction with matter grew being today one of the most important tools used to verify the dose distribution in patients, design radiotherapy facility, study the radioisotopesproton/ion beams and their application (Berger. Monte Carlo calculation of the penetration and diffusion of fast charged particles, vol. I. Academic Press, New York, pp. 135–215, 1963 [1]),(Berger and Hubbell. XCOM: photon cross sections on a personal computer, Technical Report NBSIR 87–3597. National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 1987. [2]). Monte Carlo is also often used to evaluate important parameters related with the quality of a radiation treatment [3]. Evaluation of radiobiological damage from charged particles represents a complex calculation where a simple analytical approach is not sufficient for a precise and complete description of involved phenomena. In this work we will present, after a brief introduction on Monte Carlo method, the use of the open-source Geant4 toolkit for the simulation of a typical hadrontherapy passive beamline and how it can be efficiently used to retrieve critical parameters like LET and RBE.
AB - Monte Carlo simulation represents nowadays one of the powerful approach for the simulation of very complex environments like those typical of medical physics where, in general, an accurate simulation of the involved radiation beams and of the patients are required to fully reproduce a clinical case. It since from 1963, when Berger introduced the condensed approach for the simulation of electron interaction with matter grew being today one of the most important tools used to verify the dose distribution in patients, design radiotherapy facility, study the radioisotopesproton/ion beams and their application (Berger. Monte Carlo calculation of the penetration and diffusion of fast charged particles, vol. I. Academic Press, New York, pp. 135–215, 1963 [1]),(Berger and Hubbell. XCOM: photon cross sections on a personal computer, Technical Report NBSIR 87–3597. National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 1987. [2]). Monte Carlo is also often used to evaluate important parameters related with the quality of a radiation treatment [3]. Evaluation of radiobiological damage from charged particles represents a complex calculation where a simple analytical approach is not sufficient for a precise and complete description of involved phenomena. In this work we will present, after a brief introduction on Monte Carlo method, the use of the open-source Geant4 toolkit for the simulation of a typical hadrontherapy passive beamline and how it can be efficiently used to retrieve critical parameters like LET and RBE.
KW - Geant4
KW - Hadrontherapy
KW - Monte Carlo simulations
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-25850-4_9
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-25850-4_9
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85072866787
SN - 9783030258498
T3 - Springer Proceedings in Physics
SP - 187
EP - 208
BT - Laser-Driven Sources of High Energy Particles and Radiation: Lecture Notes of the “Capri” Advanced Summer School
A2 - Gizzi, Leonida Antonio
A2 - Koester, Petra
A2 - Giulietti, Antonio
A2 - Assmann, Ralph
PB - Springer Science and Business Media, LLC
T2 - Advanced Summer School on Laser-Driven Sources of High Energy Particles and Radiation, 2017
Y2 - 9 July 2017 through 16 July 2017
ER -