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

D Sarrut, M Bardiès, N Boussion, N Freud… - Medical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Dosimetry applications in GATE Monte Carlo toolkit

P Papadimitroulas - Physica Medica, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Purpose Monte Carlo (MC) simulations are a well-established method for studying
physical processes in medical physics. The purpose of this review is to present GATE …

A dose point kernel database using GATE Monte Carlo simulation toolkit for nuclear medicine applications: comparison with other Monte Carlo codes

P Papadimitroulas, G Loudos, GC Nikiforidis… - Medical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: GATE is a Monte Carlo simulation toolkit based on the Geant4 package, widely
used for many medical physics applications, including SPECT and PET image simulation …

Whole-body voxel-based personalized dosimetry: the multiple voxel S-value approach for heterogeneous media with nonuniform activity distributions

MS Lee, JH Kim, JC Paeng, KW Kang… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2018 - Soc Nuclear Med
Personalized dosimetry with high accuracy is becoming more important because of the
growing interest in personalized medicine and targeted radionuclide therapy. Voxel-based …

Internal dosimetry with the Monte Carlo code GATE: validation using the ICRP/ICRU female reference computational model

D Villoing, S Marcatili, MP Garcia… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Internal dosimetry with the Monte Carlo code GATE: validation using the ICRP/ICRU female
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Dose point kernels for 2,174 radionuclides

SA Graves, RT Flynn, DE Hyer - Medical physics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Rapid adoption of targeted radionuclide therapy as an oncologic intervention has
motivated the development of patient‐specific voxel‐wise approaches to radiation …

Fano cavity test for electron Monte Carlo transport algorithms in magnetic fields: comparison between EGSnrc, PENELOPE, MCNP6 and Geant4

J Lee, J Lee, D Ryu, H Lee, SJ Ye - Physics in Medicine & …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
A Fano cavity test was performed for four general-purpose Monte Carlo codes, EGSnrc,
PENELOPE, MCNP6 and Geant4 to evaluate the accuracy of their electron transport …

Calculation of dose point kernel values for monoenergetic electrons and beta emitting radionuclides: Intercomparison of Monte Carlo codes

BM Mendes, PCG Antunes, ISL Branco… - Radiation Physics and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Targeted radionuclide therapy (TRT) and beta-emitting seeds brachytherapy (BSBT) exploit
the characteristics of energy deposited by beta-emitting radionuclides. Monte Carlo (MC) …

Development of a new Geant4-DNA electron elastic scattering model for liquid-phase water using the ELSEPA code

WG Shin, MC Bordage, D Emfietzoglou… - Journal of Applied …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
This paper presents the calculation of new elastic scattering cross sections for the simulation
of electron interactions in liquid water. The calculations are based on the “ELastic Scattering …

Evaluating the application of tissue-specific dose kernels instead of water dose kernels in internal dosimetry: a Monte Carlo study

M Khazaee Moghadam, A Kamali Asl… - Cancer Biotherapy …, 2016 - liebertpub.com
Purpose: The aim of this work is to evaluate the application of tissue-specific dose kernels
instead of water dose kernels to improve the accuracy of patient-specific dosimetry by taking …