reviewMedical PhysicsMay 12, 2014HYBRID OA

A review of the use and potential of the GATE Monte Carlo simulation code for radiation therapy and dosimetry applications

DSDavid SarrutMBManuel BardièsNBNicolas BoussionNFN. FreudSJSébastien Jan

Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 · Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · +15 more institutions

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Abstract

In this paper, the authors' review the applicability of the open-source GATE Monte Carlo simulation platform based on the GEANT4 toolkit for radiation therapy and dosimetry applications. The many applications of GATE for state-of-the-art radiotherapy simulations are described including external beam radiotherapy, brachytherapy, intraoperative radiotherapy, hadrontherapy, molecular radiotherapy, and in vivo dose monitoring. Investigations that have been performed using GEANT4 only are also mentioned to illustrate the potential of GATE. The very practical feature of GATE making it easy to model both a treatment and an imaging acquisition within the same framework is emphasized. The computational times associated…

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  • Monte Carlo method
  • Dosimetry
  • Radiation therapy
  • Brachytherapy
  • Medical physics
  • Computer science
  • Medical imaging
  • Radiation
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