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Report on G4-Med, a Geant4 benchmarking system for medical physics applications developed by the Geant4 Medical Simulation Benchmarking Group.

  • Arce P CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain.
  • Bolst D Centre For Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia.
  • Cutajar D Centre For Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia.
  • Guatelli S Centre For Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia.
  • Le A Centre For Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia.
  • Rosenfeld AB Centre For Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia.
  • Sakata D Centre For Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia.
  • Bordage MC CRCT (INSERM and Paul Sabatier University), Toulouse, France.
  • Brown JMC Department of Radiation Science and Technology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands.
  • Cirrone P INFN LNS, Catania, Italy.
  • Cuttone G INFN LNS, Catania, Italy.
  • Pandola L INFN LNS, Catania, Italy.
  • Petringa G INFN LNS, Catania, Italy.
  • Cortѐs-Giraldo MA Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain.
  • Quesada JM Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain.
  • Desorgher L Institute of Radiation Physics (IRA), Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland.
  • Dondero P SWHARD srl, Genova, Italy.
  • Mantero A SWHARD srl, Genova, Italy.
  • Dotti A SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford, USA.
  • Wright DH SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford, USA.
  • Faddegon B University of California, San Francisco, USA.
  • Ramos-Mѐndez J University of California, San Francisco, USA.
  • Fedon C Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
  • Incerti S CENBG, Bordeaux, France.
  • Ivanchenko V Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russian Federation and CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
  • Konstantinov D NRC "Kurchatov Institute" - IHEP, Protvino, Russian Federation.
  • Latyshev G NRC "Kurchatov Institute" - IHEP, Protvino, Russian Federation.
  • Kyriakou I Ioannina University, Ioannina, Greece.
  • Mancini-Terracciano C Roma 1, INFN, Italy.
  • Maire M LAPP, IN2P3, Annecy, France.
  • Novak M CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
  • Omachi C Nagoya Proton Therapy Center, Nagoya, Japan.
  • Toshito T Nagoya Proton Therapy Center, Nagoya, Japan.
  • Perales A Medical Physics Department of Clínica Universidad de Navarra, Spain.
  • Perrot Y IRSN, France.
  • Romano F INFN Catania Section, Catania, Italy.
  • Sarmiento LG Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
  • Sasaki T KEK, Tsukuba, Japan.
  • Sechopoulos I Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
  • Simpson EC Department of Nuclear Physics, Research School of Physics, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
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  • 2020-05-12
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  • Medical physics. - 2020
English Geant4 is a Monte Carlo code extensively used in medical physics for a wide range of applications, such as dosimetry, micro- and nano- dosimetry, imaging, radiation protection and nuclear medicine. Geant4 is continuously evolving, so it is crucial to have a system that benchmarks this Monte Carlo code for medical physics against reference data and to perform regression testing. To respond to these needs, we developed G4-Med, a benchmarking and regression testing system of Geant4 for medical physics, that currently includes 18 tests. They range from the benchmarking of fundamental physics quantities to the testing of Monte Carlo simulation setups typical of medical physics applications. Both electromagnetic and hadronic physics processes and models within the pre-built, Geant4 physics lists are tested. The tests included in G4-Med are executed on the CERN computing infrastructure via the use of the geant-val web application, developed at CERN for Geant4 testing. The physical observables can be compared to reference data for benchmarking and to results of previous Geant4 versions for regression testing purposes. This paper describes the tests included in G4-Med and shows the results derived from the benchmarking of Geant4 10.5 against reference data. The results presented and discussed in this paper will aid users in tailoring physics lists to their particular application.
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