G4Linac_MT, an easy-to-use Geant4-based code for modeling medical linear accelerator

In this paper, we present G4Linac_MT, a simple-to-use open source code developed to facilitate the use of the Geant4 C++ toolkit for the simulation of a medical linear accelerator (linac). This multithreaded code encapsulates several well-developed C++ modules serving to handle the complexity of cod...

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Published in:Radiation physics and chemistry (Oxford, England : 1993) England : 1993), 2019-04, Vol.157, p.65-71
Main Authors: EL Bakkali, Jaafar, Doudouh, Abderrahim, Mansouri, Hamid, EL Bardouni, Tarek
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bremsstrahlung
C plus plus
C++ (programming language)
Coding
Computer simulation
Data analysis
G4Linac_MT
Geant4
Graphical user interface
Histograms
Linac
Linear accelerators
Modelling
Modules
Monte Carlo
Multi-threading
Reduction
Source code
Splitting
Variance
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Summary:In this paper, we present G4Linac_MT, a simple-to-use open source code developed to facilitate the use of the Geant4 C++ toolkit for the simulation of a medical linear accelerator (linac). This multithreaded code encapsulates several well-developed C++ modules serving to handle the complexity of coding geometry and material, to easy plot histograms of various physics quantities, to auto-merge output data created by all working threads into a single file, to well-estimate the number of simulated primary particles required to achieve data with a statistical uncertainty
ISSN:0969-806X
1879-0895
DOI:10.1016/j.radphyschem.2018.12.027