Introduction: Ionizing radiation is widely used in industry and medicine; however, it causes a significant health hazard by making microscopic damage to living tissue. Various biological parameters, including cell survival fraction and relative biological effectiveness, are taken into account to assess the severity and extent of biological damages. Microdosimetry suffe...

The contribution gives an overview of the LCFIVertex package, providing software tools for high-level event reconstruction at the International Linear Collider using vertexdetector information. The package was validated using a fast Monte Carlo simulation. Performance obtained with a more realistic GEANT4-based detector simulation and realistic tracking code is presented. The influence of hadro...

BACKGROUND The Monte Carlo code GEANT4 was used to implement first steps towards a treatment planning program for fast-neutron therapy at the FRM II research reactor in Garching, Germany. Depth dose curves were calculated inside a water phantom using measured primary neutron and simulated primary photon spectra and compared with depth dose curves measured earlier. The calculations were performe...

Introduction: Spatial dose distribution around the radionuclides sources is required for optimized treatment planning in radioimmunotherapy. At present, the main source of data for cellular dosimetry is the s-values provided by MIRD. However, the MIRD s-values have been calculated based on analytical formula in which no electrons straggling is taken to account. In this study, we used Geant4-DNA...

Therapeutic irradiation with protons and ions is advantageous over radiotherapy with photons due to its favorable dose deposition. Additionally, ion beams provide a higher relative biological effectiveness than photons. For this reason, an improved treatment of deep-seated tumors is achieved and normal tissue is spared. However, small deviations from the treatment plan can have a large impact o...

PURPOSE Although the Monte Carlo (MC) method allows accurate dose calculation its usage is limited due to long computing time. In order to gain efficiency, a new macro MC (MMC) technique for proton dose calculations in homogeneous materials has been developed. METHODS The macro MC is based on a local to global MC approach. The local simulations using Geant4 consist of mono-energetic proton pe...

introduction: spatial dose distribution around the radionuclides sources is required for optimized treatment planning in radioimmunotherapy. at present, the main source of data for cellular dosimetry is the s-values provided by mird. however, the mird s-values have been calculated based on analytical formula in which no electrons straggling is taken to account. in this study, we used geant4-dna...