Hadrontherapy: An open source, Geant4-based application for proton-ion therapy studies

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 4186-4189

  Cirrone, G A Pablo ^a   Cuttone, Giacomo ^a   Di Rosa, Francesco ^a   Mazzaglia, Santi E ^a   Romano, Francesco ^a   Attili, Andrea ^c   Bourhaleb, Faiza ^c   Russo, Germano ^c   Kataniemi, Pekka ^b   Heikkinen, Aatos ^b   Marchetto, Flavio ^c   Jungwook, Shin ^d  

^a INFN LABORATORI NAZIONALI DEL SUD   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c SEZIONE DI TORINO   (Italy)

^d National Cancer Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Geant4; Ion; Monte Carlo simulation; Proton; Therapy

Indexed keywords

BASIC PARAMETERS; CARBON BEAMS; DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; GEOMETRICAL CONFIGURATIONS; HADRON THERAPY; HADRONIC MODELS; ION THERAPY; MONTE CARLO; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; OPEN SOURCE APPLICATION; OPEN SOURCES; PROTON THERAPY; PROTON THERAPY BEAMS; SCATTERING SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PROTONS;

ELEMENTARY PARTICLES;

EID: 77951148906     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2009.5402279     Document Type: Conference Paper

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