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Advanced Examples Working Group

Purpose

The Advanced Examples illustrate realistic applications of GEANT4 in typical experimental enviroments. They are developed in collaboration with user groups expert in the corresponding experimental domain. The code of the developed examples can be dowloaded together with the Geant4 toolkit in the directory geant4/examples/advanced.

Members

To check the updated list of the Group Members, visit the Advanced Examples Wiki pages:

Examples List and responsibles

Example name Responsible Developer
air_shower T. Bernardo
ams_Ecal M. Maire
brachytherapy S.Guatelli
ChargeExchangeMC A.Radkov
composite_calorimeter A.Ribon
eRosita M.G.Pia
gammaray_telescope F.Longo
hadrontherapy G.A.P.Cirrone
lAr_Calorimeter A.Ribon
medical_linac C.Andenna, B.Caccia and G.A.P.Cirrone
micorbeam S.Incerti
nanobeam S.Incerti
purging_magnet J.Apostolakis
radioprotection S.Guatelli and M.G.Pia
Rich A.Ribon
underground_physics A.Howard
xray_fluerescence A.Mantero
xray_telescope G.Santin

Workplan for 2009

  • We expect the participation of two new members; They should contribute to the Medical Linac and Hadrontherapy examples
  • All the examples in the directory will be mantained
  • Change in design and features of the Medical Linac example expecially regarding performance;
  • Harontherapy will be changed to work also in a "pencil beam" configuration and in a "general" configuration for radiotherapy;
  • DICOM should be definitively introduced in Medical Linac and Hadrontherapy;
  • A new example will be inserted: GammaKnife; it will simulate a special kind of radiotherapy modality called "Gamma Knife";

Workplan for 2010

  • The migration to the new Lowenergy and Standard physics was completed but tests and validation have to be carried out.
  • The Physics Lists usage must be shown for any example and at least one example per category (medical, high energy, underground, radioprotection, nuclear physics) must be updated. At moment less then one half of the examples show the Physics Lists use.
  • The possibility to use clinical DICOM images will be inserted in Hadrontherapy to show a 'real case treatment' for proton therapy
  • Three examples should be added: *GammaKnife*: simulation of a real 'radiosurgery' apparatus. WILL BE INSERTED IN APRIL 2010; *IORT*: simulation of a real apparatus for Intra Operative Radio Therapy. WILL BE INSERTED IN OCTOBER 2010; *Cexmc*: *Charge exchange Monte Carlo* based. NOT SCHEDULED Contact with researcher at the Petersburg Nuclear Physics Laboratory (Russia) The main aim of this example is to find the best geometry of the experimental set-up and calculate its acceptances for specific physical interaction. Values of set-up acceptance are used to calculate differential cross sections of the process. Up to now the program was used to calculate the set-up acceptance in charge exchange hadronic processes (like pi-p --> pi0 n)
  • Three examples (composite_calorimeter, lAr_calorimeter and Rich) were maintained up to now by A.Ribon that leaved the Group. We should find a responsible or delete the examples
  • The presence of the examples inside the Geant4 system testing should be verified and improved

Workplan for 2011

    (1): to be completed in June 2011 (2): to be completed in December 2011 (*): we could not finish this in 2011
  • The review of the physics models implemented must be completed in all the examples (2)
  • Documentation on physics models implemented is not updated in many examples (README and web pages): examples with not updated or obsolete documentation will be updated (*)
  • The new example MCChargeExchange (inserted in 2010) must be debugged and improved (1)
  • Medical LInac example must be optimised (2) to avoid an excessive RAM occupation. Also minor corrections are needed (1)
  • Two new example should appear: GammaKnife (1) and IORT(2, *)
  • General code review (1, 2)
  • A new major revision of Hadrontherapy is expected (2)

Workplan for 2012

    (1): to be completed in June 2012 (2): to be completed in December 2012
  • The review of the physics models implemented must be completed in all the examples (1)
  • Documentation updating still in progress and must be completed (2)
  • Web pages will be moved from the Wiki server to an Official INFN page (2)
  • Pubblication of the new Gamma Knife example (it is in the repository but not still public) (2)
  • General code review (1, 2)
  • We was not able to propose a major revision of Hadrontherapy in 2011 (as planned). We should release it in the first six months of 2012.
  • The new analysis approach must be followed in any examples using the new Geant4 kernel classes to generate the root/xml/hbook files: this work has been already completed for some example (5 %)
  • We expect to remove examples not more maintained after a careful analysis of the situation

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Last updated: 01 Mar 2012