Technical Note: GATE-RTion: a GATE/Geant4 release for clinical applications in scanned ion beam therapy.
GATE
Geant4
Independent dose calculation
Monte Carlo simulation
clinical
ion beam therapy
Journal
Medical physics
ISSN: 2473-4209
Titre abrégé: Med Phys
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0425746
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Aug 2020
Aug 2020
Historique:
received:
20
12
2019
revised:
15
04
2020
accepted:
03
05
2020
pubmed:
19
5
2020
medline:
15
5
2021
entrez:
19
5
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
GATE-RTion is a validated version of GATE for clinical use in the field of light ion beam therapy. This paper describes the GATE-RTion project and illustrates its potential through clinical applications developed in three European centers delivering scanned proton and carbon ion treatments. GATE-RTion is a collaborative framework provided by the OpenGATE collaboration. It contains a validated GATE release based on a specific Geant4 version, a set of tools to integrate GATE into a clinical environment and a network for clinical users. Three applications are presented: Proton radiography at the Centre Antoine Lacassagne (Nice, France); Independent dose calculation for proton therapy at the Christie NHS Foundation Trust (Manchester, UK); Independent dose calculation for protons and carbon ions at the MedAustron Ion Therapy center (Wiener Neustadt, Austria). GATE-RTion builds the bridge between researchers and clinical users from the OpenGATE collaboration in the field of Light Ion Beam Therapy. The applications presented in three European facilities using three completely different machines (three different vendors, cyclotron- and synchrotron-based systems, protons, and carbon ions) demonstrate the relevance and versatility of this project.
Substances chimiques
Protons
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
3675-3681Subventions
Organisme : Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie (BMVIT)
Organisme : Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft (BMWFW)
Organisme : Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgesellschaft (FFG)
Organisme : Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
ID : ST/N002423/1
Organisme : ACMIT Gmbh
Organisme : Medical University of Vienna
Organisme : MedAustron
Organisme : Austrian Funding Agency
Organisme : SIRIC LYriCAN
ID : INCa-INSERM-DGOS-12563
Organisme : LABEX PRIMES
ID : ANR-11-LABX-0063
Organisme : Investissements d'Avenir
ID : ANR-11-IDEX-0007
Informations de copyright
© 2020 American Association of Physicists in Medicine.
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