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Geant4 - ICRP145_HumanPhantoms example
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README
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* The ICRP145 Phantoms are used in Geant4 with permission from the *
* International Commission on Radiological Protection * *
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Authors' list:
• Haeginh Han / Hanyang University, Republic of Korea
• Min Cheol Han / Yonsei University Health System, Republic of Korea
• Banho Shin / Hanyang University, Republic of Korea
• Chansoo Choi / University of Florida, USA
• Yeon Soo Yeom / Yonsei University, Republic of Korea
• Jonghwi Jeong / National Cancer Center, Republic of Korea
• Chan Hyeong Kim / Hanyang University, Republic of Korea
Bibliographic references - please refer to this reference when using the Advanced Example
• ICRP, 2020. Adult mesh-type reference computational phantoms. ICRP Publication 145. Ann. ICRP 49(3).
Geant4 Contributors: J. Allison and S. Guatelli
e-mail inquiries to: haeginh@hanyang.ac.kr, susanna@uow.edu.au, MRCP.ICRP@gmail.com
1- HOW TO BUILD AND RUN THE EXAMPLES
Please note that the guides below are based on Linux/MacOSX, which are the
recommended platforms for Geant4.
1) Compile and link to generate an executable (with CMake)
% cd path_to_example
% mkdir example_build
% cd example_build
% cmake ..
% make
This should make two executables - ICRP145phantoms and ICRP145standalone.
2) How to run
a) For the irradiation with external beams:
% ./ICRP145phantoms [options]
Options:
-m [input file name] optional provided->batch mode
not provided->interactive mode
-o [output file name] optional (default: [macro file name].out)
-f optional switch to change the phantom to MRCP-AF
(default: MRCP-AM)
ex) MRCP-AM: % ./External -m example.in -o example.out
ex) MRCP-AF: % ./External -m example.in -o example.out -f
*** The radiation source can be specified in source.mac file by using
macro commands for G4GeneralParticleSource (/gps/)
b) For the case of internal radiation sources:
% ./ICRP145phantoms [options]
Options:
-i [ID of source organ] mandatory (ID of each organ can be found in Appendix A)
-m [input file name] optional provided->batch mode
not provided->interactive mode
-o [output file name] optional (default: [macro file name].out)
-f optional switch to change the phantom to MRCP-AF
(default: MRCP-AM)
ex) MRCP-AM: % ./Internal -i 9500 -m example.in -o example.out
ex) MRCP-AF: % ./Internal -i 9500 -m example.in -o example.out -f
*** source organ can be defined by using -i option.
*** source particle and the particle energy can be specified
in source.mac file by using macro commands for G4ParticlGun (/gun/)
c) To see the phantom alone:
% ./ICRP145standalone
This allows you to visualise the phantom without the overhead of
the run manager and physics tables and geometry initialisation.
Of course, you cannot run or visualise trajectories.
d) Notes
- Regarding the interactive mode with visualisation:
* you can run the codes in interactive mode with visualisation by
omitting -m option.
* with "special mesh rendering" (see vis.mac) the memory required
for the visualisation about 1.5 GB (without, it's ~35 GB!).
* original data takes about 3 GB, physics tables and geometry
voxelisation consume about 5 GB, so a typical app is about 10 GB.
* in interactive mode, user should start a run by using
/run/beamOn command. (Idle> /run/beamOn [number of events])
- Regarding the multi-threaded mode:
* these examples can be run in multi-threaded mode when Geant4 was
compiled in multi-threaded mode.
* the number of threads can be set in input file (see example.in)
- Regarding the path to phantom data:
* the default path to phantom data is "(build_directory)/../../phantoms".
* to specify the path please change a PHANTOM_PATH environment variable.
(export PHANTOM_PATH="path_to_phantom_data")
2- RESULT FILE
example_male.out and example_female.out files in each folder is the result file
for example.in. The result file provides absorbed doses for all organ IDs for TM
model listed in Appendix A.
3- LICENSE
This code is based on Geant4 toolkit, and therefore follows the 'The Geant4
Software License' (http://geant4.web.cern.ch/license/LICENSE.html).
Gabriele Cosmo