GAMOS: An easy and flexible way to use GEANT4

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2230-2237

  Arce, Pedro ^a   Lagares, Juan I ^a   Harkness, Laura ^b   Desorgher, Laurent ^c   De Lorenzo, Gianluca ^d   Abreu, Yamiel ^e   Wang, Zhentian ^f  

^a CIEMAT   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c SpaceIT GmbH ^*  (Switzerland)

^d BARCELONA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Spain)

^e CENTRO DE APLICACIONES TECNOLÓGICAS Y DESARROLLO NUCLEAR CEADEN   (Cuba)

^f PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C++ (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); MEDICAL IMAGING; MEDICAL PHYSICS;

GEOMETRICAL CONFIGURATIONS; LEARNING CURVES; NEUTRON SHIELDING; PHYSICS MODELS; PLUG-IN TECHNOLOGY; SIMULATION CODE; SPACE PHYSICS; VISUALIZATION TOOLS;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

EID: 84863344539     PISSN: 10957863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSMIC.2011.6154455     Document Type: Conference Paper

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