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Back to SearchCourse on GAMOS/GEANT4 for medical physics and radiation protection simulations.
60-hour course (10 h theoretical and 50 h practical)
THEORICAL MODULE (CONMON TO ALL THE STUDENTS)
Unit 0. Introduction to Monte Carlo simulations.
Unit 1. Introduction to GEANT4.
Unit 2. Introduction to GAMOS
Unit 3. GAMOS Installation and first example. (choosing the operating system option: Unit3a- Windows or Unit3b-Linux)
Unit 4. Visualization and reading of DICON files.
PRACTICAL MODULE (CHOOSING ONE FIELD)
GROUP A: RADIOTHERAPY exercises
Practice A.1: Linear accelerator.
Practice A.2: Phase space management.
Practice A.3: Dose calculation in phantoms.
Practice A.4: Brachytherapy.
Practice A.5: SBRT treatment simulation and analysis of results.
GROUP B: RADIATION PROTECTION exercises.
Practice B.1: Shielding of a radioactive source.
Practice B.2: Shielding from an Am-Be source.
Practice B.3: Design of a shielding for AmBe source of neutrons.
Practice B.4: Activation studies.
GROUP C: NUCLEAR MEDICINE DETECTORS exercises
Practice C.1: PET Detector.
Practice C.2: PET events analysis.
Practice C.3: Physics effects in the detector.
Practice C.4: SPECT Detector.
Practice C.5: Detect and reconstruct PET events from a Nuclear Medicine DICOM image.
GROUP D: PROTONTHERAPY exercises
Practice D.1: Simulation of a proton pencil beam in water.
Practice D.2: Proton range study.
Practice D.3: Simulation of an active beam proton treatment.
Practice D.4: Biological effects vs. dose deposition.
Course formed by a common theoretical module and a specialty to choose.
Course taught in English and Spanish.