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IEEE NSS-MIC 2004
2004
IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium - Medical Imaging Conference
Roma, Ergife Palace Hotel, Room Tarragona, 17 October 2004
Lecture Notes
- Brief overview of basic concepts in the simulation of particle
interactions with matter
- Geant4 vision: scope, fundamental concepts
- Geant4 architecture
- System of units
- Geant4 kernel (Run, Event, Tracking)
Detector modeling - G. Cosmo (60')
Primary event generation and interactions of particle with matter - D. Wright,
A. Heikkinen, M.G. Pia (120')
- Visualisation
- User interface
- Associated data analysis
- Event biasing
- Parameterisation (fast simulation)
- Persistency
- Parallelisation and integration in a distributed computing environment
- High energy and nuclear physics experiments
- Astroparticle physics and astrophysics
- Space science
- Geant4 capabilities relevant to medical applications
- Geant4 in radiotherapy: dosimetry with external beams, IMRT, brachytherapy,
hadrontherapy
- Geant4 in nuclear medicine: PET, PEM
- Design of a basic user application
- User initialisation and actions
- Design overview
- Code overview
- Geant4 installation, supported platforms
- Documentation
- User support
Last update
21 September 2004 - Maria
Grazia Pia