The Geant4 Virtual Monte Carlo

The Virtual Monte Carlo

The concept of Virtual Monte Carlo (VMC) has been developed by the ALICE Software Project to allow different Monte Carlo simulation programs to run without changing the user code, such as the geometry definition, the detector response simulation or input and output formats. Recently, the VMC classes have been integrated into the ROOT framework, and the other relevant packages have been separate...

A GEANT4 Monte-Carlo Simulation Code for precision β spectroscopy

The measurement of the β asymmetry parameter in nuclear β decay is a potentially very sensitive tool to search for non V −A components in the charge-changing weak interaction. To reach the required precision (percent level) all effects that modify the emission pattern of the β radiation, i.e. the geometry of the setup, the effect of the magnetic field on the trajectories of β particles as well ...

The comparison of Monte Carlo simulations with GEANT4 for polyethylene absorber within the pCT development

Radioiodine (131-I) treatment for Graves’ disease: Geant4 Monte Carlo simulation for patient personalized dose estimation

Background: Reliable estimation of radiation-absorbed dose is necessary to evaluate the benefits and the risks of radiopharmaceuticals used for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes in nuclear medicine. Materiel and Methods: This study included 47 patients treated with iodine-131 for Graves’ disease. A comparative study between Geant4 Monte Carlo simulation and MIRD formalism was carried out to ev...

Monte Carlo simulation of laser beams interaction with the human eye using Geant4

BACKGROUND Due to the unique characteristics of the eye, ophthalmologic diagnostic techniques often rely on the photons interaction with the retina to infer its internal structure. Although these techniques are widely used, the interpretation of the generated images is not always fully understood, as in scanning laser ophthalmoscopy dark field imaging. This limits the exploitation of its full p...