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Geant4-based simulations of the energy deposited by electrons in various materials are quantitatively compared to high precision calorimetric measurements taken at Sandia Laboratories. The experimental data concern electron beams of energy…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Matej Batic , Gabriela Hoff , Maria Grazia Pia , Paolo Saracco , Georg Weidenspointner

In positron emission tomography (PET), time-of-flight (TOF) information localizes source positions along lines of response. Cherenkov-radiator-integrated microchannel-plate photomultiplier tubes have achieved 30 ps TOF resolution,…

The fastCAT application uses pre-calculated Monte Carlo (MC) CBCT phantom-specific scatter and detector response functions to reduce simulation time for megavoltage (MV) and kilovoltage (kV) CBCT imaging. Pre-calculated x-ray beam energy…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 Jericho O'Connell , Magdalena Bazalova-Carter

The paper discusses some 3D simulations to compute the ionizing radiation dose during laser-plasma experiments leading to the generation of accelerated protons and electrons. Also, we suggest a new method to increase the measurement…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-02 M. Ganciu , A. Chirosca , A. Groza , E. Stancu , O. Stoican , D. B. Dreghici , B. Butoi , C. Ticos , B. Mihalcea , B. Cramariuc

Geant4 is a tool kit developed by a collaboration of physicists and computer professionals in the High Energy Physics field for simulation of the passage of particles through matter. The motivation for the development of the Beam Tools is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Daniel Elvira , P. Lebrun , P. Spentzouris

To expedite the commissioning process of the proton therapy system at Samsung Medical Center (SMC), we have developed a Monte Carlo simulation model of the proton therapy nozzles using TOPAS. At SMC proton therapy center, we have two gantry…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-06-01 Kwangzoo Chung , Jinsung Kim , Dae-Hyun Kim , Sunghwan Ahn , Youngyih Han

Depth-of-interaction (DOI) encoding is an effective strategy for reducing parallax error and preserving spatial resolution in positron emission tomography (PET), particularly in compact small-animal scanners. To enable efficient…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Satzhan Sitmukhambetov , Junwei Du , Mingwu Jin , Yujie Chi

The new simulation for the ATLAS detector at LHC is performed using Geant4 in a complete OO/C++ environment. In this framework the simulation of the various test beams for the different ATLAS subdetectors offers an excellent opportunity to…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrea Dell'Acqua

Geant4 is a Monte Carlo radiation transport toolkit that is becoming a tool of generalized application in areas such as high-energy physics, nuclear physics, astroparticle physics, or medical physics. Geant4 provides an optical physics…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 João Costa , Mário Pimenta , Bernardo Tomé

We present results from a detailed GEANT4 simulation of a proposed Muon Tomography System that employs compact Micro Pattern Gas Detectors with high spatial resolution. A basic Point-Of-Closest-Approach algorithm is applied to reconstructed…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-15 Kondo Gnanvo , Patrick Ford , Jennifer Helsby , Richie Hoch , Debasis Mitra , Marcus Hohlmann

The low cost and high resolution gas-based Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chamber (MRPC) opens a new possibility to find an efficient alternative detector for Time of Flight (TOF) based Positron Emission Tomography, where the sensitivity of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2011-06-30 A. Banerjee , S. Chattopadhyay

Monte Carlo simulations are increasingly used in scintigraphic imaging to model imaging systems and to develop and assess tomographic reconstruction algorithms and correction methods for improved image quantitation. GATE (GEANT 4…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Lazaro , I. Buvat , G. Loudos , D. Strul , G. Santin , N. Giokaris , D. Donnarieix , L. Maigne , V. Spanoudaki , S. Styliaris , S. Staelens , V. Breton

Galactic cosmic rays undergo complex nuclear interactions with nuclei within planetary bodies that have little to no atmosphere. Radiation transport simulations are a key tool used in understanding the neutron and gamma-ray albedo coming…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-11 K. E. Mesick , W. C. Feldman , D. D. S. Coupland , L. C. Stonehill

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a Nuclear Medicine technique that creates images that allow the study of metabolic activity and organ function using radiopharmaceuticals. Continuous improvement of scintillation detectors for radiation…

Plastic scintillators are widely used as particle detectors in many fields, mainly, medicine, particle physics and astrophysics. Traditionally, they are coupled to a photo-multplier (PMT) but now silicon photo-multipliers (SiPM) are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-28 G. Ros , G. Sáez-Cano , G. A. Medina-Tanco , A. D. Supanitsky

The imaging performance of a high-resolution preclinical microPET system employing liquid xenon as the gamma ray detection medium was simulated. The arrangement comprises a ring of detectors consisting of trapezoidal LXe time projection…

Medical Physics · Physics 2012-03-23 A. Miceli , J. Glister , A. Andreyev , D. Bryman , L. Kurchaninov , P. Lu , A. Muennich , F. Retiere , V. Sossi

Monte Carlo simulation plays an important role in the study of time of flight (TOF) positron emission tomography (PET) prototype. As it can incorporate accurate physical modeling of scintillation detection process, from scintillation light…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-09-17 Ze Chen , Zheng-Guo Hu , Jin-Da Chen , Xiu-Ling Zhang , Zhi-Yu Sun , Wen-Xue Huang , Jian-Song Wang , Zhong-Yan Guo , Guo-Qing Xiao

As simulation system, the variety of physics processes implemented is one of the most important functionalities. In that sense, Geant4 is one of the most powerful simulation toolkits. Its flexibility and expansibility brought by…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Murakami , K. Amako , H. Hirayama , Y. Namito , T. Sasaki , M. Asai , T. Koi

Optical detection of alpha particle emitters in the environment by air radioluminescence is a new technology that enables sensing a radiological threat at safe distances, without putting personnel at risk or contaminating equipment.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-10-24 Claudia Olaru , Mihail-Razvan Ioan , Mastaneh Zadehrafi

In this work, we present modeling and imaging performance of a dual panel limited-angle TOF-PET system for intraoperative surgical applications using GATE monte carlo toolkit. Several detector parameters such as detector pixel dimensions,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Salar Sajedi , Yuemeng Feng , Hamid Sabet