ESTRO27 - Geant4 Presentations

Talks

IN VIVO BEAM PROFILE VERIFICATION OF NARROW HIGH ENERGY SCANNED PHOTON BEAMS USING PET-CT MEASUREMENT OF INDUCED ACTIVITY

S. Strååt1, B. Andreassen1, C. Jonsson2, R. Holmberg3, A. Brahme1, P. Näfstadius4

1 KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET & STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY, Medical Radiation Physics, Stockholm, Sweden 2 KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, Department of Medical Physics/Nuclear Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden 3 KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET, Medical Radiation Physics, Stockholm, Sweden 4 KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, Hospital Physics, Stockholm, Sweden

BROAD BEAM TRANSMISSION DATA FOR THE SHIELDING OF BRACHYTHERAPY FACILITIES

J. Venselaar1, F. Ballester2, D. Baltas3, J. Gimeno4, D. Granero5, P. Papagiannis6, J. Perez-Calatayud5

1 DR. B. VERBEETEN INSTITUTE, Department of Clinical Physics, Tilburg, Netherlands 2 UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA-IFIC, Valencia, Spain 3 KLINIKUM OFFENBACH GMBH, Department of Engineering and Medical Physics, Offenbach am Main, Germany 4 IVO, Radiation Oncology, Valencia, Spain 5 LA FE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, Radiation Oncology, Valencia, Spain 6 ATHENS UNIVERSITY, MEDICAL SCHOOL, Laboratory of Medical Physics, Athens, Greece

CONSTRUCTION OF A HYBRID 1.5 T MRI ACCELERATOR FOR REAL-TIME SOFT-TISSUE BASED IMAGE GUIDANCE: STATUS REPORT

B. Raaymakers1, J. Lagendijk1, A. Raaijmakers1, E. Kerkhof1, R. van der Put1, I. Van Dijk1, J. Kok1, M. van Vulpen2, J. Overweg3, K. Brown4

1 UMC UTRECHT, Radiotherapy, Utrecht, Netherlands 2 UMC UTRECHT, Radiation Oncology, Utrecht, Netherlands 3 PHILIPS RESEARCH, MRI, Hamburg, Germany 4 ELEKTA UK LIMITED, Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom

CANCER RISK FROM NEUTRON DOSE IN PROTON THERAPY FOR ADULT AND PEDIATRIC PATIENTS

C. Zacharatou Jarlskog1, H. Paganetti2

1 COPENHAGEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, RIGSHOSPITALET, Department of Radiation Oncology, Copenhagen, Denmark 2 MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL AND HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL, Department of Radiation Oncology, Boston, USA

QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF THE REPRODUCIBILITY AND THE CONSISTENCY OF PROTON BEAM RANGE VERIFICATION WITH PET/CT

A. Knopf1, K. Parodi2, H. Paganetti1, E. Cascio1, A. Bonab3, T. Bortfeld1

1 MGH, Radiation Oncology, Boston, USA 2 HEIDELBERG ION THERAPY CENTER, Radiation Oncology, Heidelberg, Germany 3 MGH, Radiology, Boston, USA

Posters

EVALUATION OF THE CORRECTION FACTOR DUE TO THE LACK OF FULL SCATTER CONDITIONS IN CS-137 AND IR-192 BRACHYTHERAPY DOSIMETRIC STUDIES

F. Ballester1, J. Perez-Calatayud2, M. Rivard3, C. Melhus3, M. Pujades2, D. Granero2

1 UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA, Atomic, Molecular, and Nuclear Physics, Burjassot, Spain 2 LA FE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, Radiation Oncology, Valencia, Spain 3 TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, Radiation Oncology, Boston, USA

BETA RAY POINT SOURCE DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS USING GATE/GEANT4. APPLICATION TO A 106RU OCULAR BRACHYTHERAPY TREATMENT

L. Maigne1, C. O. Thiam1, D. Donnarieix2, V. Breton1

1 LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE CORPUSCULAIRE, PCSV, Aubière, France 2 CENTRE JEAN PERRIN, Unité de physique médicale, Clermont Ferrand, France

CELLULAR S-VALUES GENERATED WITH THE MONTE CARLO CODES PENELOPE, MCNPX AND GEANT4

H. Uusijärvi1, N. Chouin2, M. Bardiès2, J. M. Fernández-Varea3

1 LUND UNIVERSITY, Clinical Sciences in Malmö, Malmö, Sweden 2 UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES, Faculté de Médecine, Nantes, France 3 UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA, Facultat de Fisica (ECM), Barcelona, Spain

EVALUATION OF ELECTRONIC EQUILIBRIUM CONDITIONS NEAR BRACHYTHERAPY SOURCES

D. Granero1, J. Perez-Calatayud1, M. Rivard2, C. Melhus2, M. C. Pujades1, F. Ballester3

1 LA FE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, Radiation Oncology, Valencia, Spain 2 TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, Radiation Oncology, Boston, USA 3 UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA, Atomic, Molecular, and Nuclear Physics, Burjassot, Spain

MONTE CARLO SIMULATION OF ACCELERATOR ROOM SHIELDING

N. Tarnavski

THE FINSEN CENTER - RIGSHOSPITALET, Radiation Oncology, Copenhagen, Denmark

PARAMETERIZATION AND APPLICATION OF KERNELS FOR MODELING SCANNED PROTON BEAM COLLIMATOR SCATTER DOSE

E. Traneus1, A. Ahnesjö2, N. Tilly1, P. Kimstrand1

1 NUCLETRON SCANDINAVIA AB, Uppsala, Sweden 2 AKADEMISKA SJUKHUSET, Department of Oncology, Radiology and Clinical Immunology, Uppsala, Sweden

PROTON DOSIMETRY: REAL-TIME LUMINESCENCE SYSTEMS IN A CLINICAL SET-UP

S. Greilich1, C. E. Andersen1, E. Grusell2, S. Mattsson3

1 RISØ NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY, TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK, Department of Radiation Research, Roskillde, Denmark 2 UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, Department of Hospital Physics, Uppsala, Sweden 3 LUND UNIVERSITY, MALMÖ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, Department of Medical Radiation Physics, Malmö, Sweden

DOSIMETRIC EVALUATION OF INTERNAL SHIELDING IN A HDR SKIN APPLICATOR

F. Lliso1, D. Granero1, J. Perez-Calatayud1, V. Carmona1, V. Gonzalez1, M. Pujades1, F. Ballester2

1 LA FE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, Radiation Oncology, Valencia, Spain 2 UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA-IFIC, Valencia, Spain

EXPERIMENTAL AND SIMULATION VERIFICATION OF THE ELECTRON CONTAMINATION DURING HIGH ENERGY SCANNED PHOTON BEAM IMRT

B. Andreassen1, S. Strååt1, R. Holmberg2, A. Brahme2, P. Näfstadius3

1 STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY, KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET, Medical Radiation Physics, Stockholm, Sweden 2 KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET, Medical Radiation Physics, Stockholm, Sweden 3 KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, Hospital Physics, Stockholm, Sweden

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