G4Linac_MT paper

Jaafar EL Bakkali, Abderrahim Doudouh, Hamid Mansouri, Tarek EL Bardouni, G4Linac_MT, an easy-to-use Geant4-based code for modeling medical linear accelerator, Radiation Physics and Chemistry,Volume 157,2019,Pages 65-71,ISSN 0969-806X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radphyschem.2018.12.027. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969806X18300495)

Some research papers that used G4Linac_MT

1. Mustapha Assalmi, El Yamani Diaf, Najim Mansour,Validation of Monte carlo Geant4 multithreading code for a 6 MV photon beam of varian linac on the grid computing, Reports of Practical Oncology & Radiotherapy,Volume 25, Issue 6, 2020,Pages 1001-1010,ISSN 1507-1367.

2. Mustapha Assalmi, EL Yamani Diaf, The behavior of the contamination particles appears with the 18 MV photon beam delivered by Elekta Synergy MLCi2, Radiation Physics and Chemistry, Volume 199, 2022, 110384, ISSN 0969-806X.

3. Mustapha Assalmi, El Yamani Diaf, Dose divergence between monte carlo simulation and experimental measurements in the build-up region for a photon beam, Radiation Physics and Chemistry, Volume 188, 2021, 109643, ISSN 0969-806X.

4. Assalmi, M., Diaf, E.Y. Monte Carlo Simulation of Surface Dose and Dose Rate in 6MV-FFF Beams. Moscow Univ. Phys. 76, S36–S51 (2021). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0027134922010027

5. Chiuyo JS, Lugendo IJ, Muhogora WE. Determination of dose distributions by monte-carlo simulation of 6 MV photon beam of varian vitalbeam accelerator using geant4 multithreaded code. J Med Phys 2022;47:181-8

6. Eun-Sung Jang, Hyo-Yeong Lee. Evaluation of Lung Dose Using Linac Photon Beam in Geant 4 Simulation. J. Korean Soc. Radiol., Vol. 12, No. 4, August 2018

   About G4Linac_MT

   G4Linac_MT is a new simple-to-use open source code developed to facilitate the use of Geant4 C++ toolkit for the simulation of medical linear accelerator which is a common therapeutic machine used to treat patients having cancer diseases. The principal goal in development of the present code is to provide to scientific researchers whom don’t have a deep knowledge in C++ programming a easy-to-use framework for modeling existing linac machines, developing new ones, as well as studding the radiation safety in treatment of patients with modeled linac machines. G4Linac_MT is an open-source C++ program which uses some external libraries, namely, last stable version of Geant4 code (10.05) used as Monte-Carlo physics engine, HDF5-C++library used in developing of a new phase space file format, ROOT-C++ package used for data analysis and valgrind debugging tool used to detected and resolve program run errors. A Java-based application called G4Linac_GUI has been developed and provides well-developed GUI components assuring a convivial graphical user interface for G4Linac_MT code.

Here I provide some screenshots:

Required dependencies for G4Linac_MT C++ code

Geant4.10.05 toolkit

ROOT data analysis framework (version 6.14.06)

gcc >= 5.4.0

cmake >= 3.13.2

HDF5 C++ API (hdf5-1.10.4)

Valgrind

Required dependencies for G4Linac_GUI Java-based application

JRE 8

Contribution in the developement of G4Linac_MT open-source code

Anyone can contribute, even if they have a C++/Java programming skills.

For further info

Contact: Jaafar EL Bakkali, at [email protected]

License

This software is free software; you can redistribute it and / or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. For the complete text of the license see the GPL-web page.