https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202430216002
GATE Monte Carlo simulation toolkit for medical physics
1 Université Paris-Saclay, Inserm, CNRS, CEA, Laboratoire d’Imagerie Biomédicale Multimodale (BioMaps), 91401 Orsay, France.
2 Université de Lyon; CREATIS; CNRS UMR5220; Inserm U1294; INSA-Lyon ; Université Lyon 1, Lyon, France.
3 Université de Strasbourg, IPHC, CNRS, UMR7178, 67037 Strasbourg, France.
4 Department of Systems Biology and Engineering, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland.
5 MedAustron Ion Therapy Center, Wiener Neustadt, Austria.
6 Medical University of Vienna, Department of Radiation Oncology, Vienna, Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18–20, 1090 Wien, Austria.
7 Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland.
8 University of Patras, Department of Medical Physics, Patras, Greece.
9 National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), 4-9-1 Anagawa, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8555, Japan.
10 Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer, New York, NY 10021, USA.
11 High Energy Physics Division, National Centre for Nuclear Research, Otwock- ´ Swierk, Poland.
12 Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science, Jagiellonian University, S. Lojasiewicza 11, 30-348 Krakow, Poland.
13 Centre for Theranostics, Jagiellonian University, Kopernika 40 St, 31 501 Krakow, Poland.
14 Center for Proton Therapy, PSI, Switzerland.
15 Department of Physics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
16 Bioemission Technology Solutions IKE, BIOEMTECH, Athens, Greece.
17 Université Clermont Auvergne, Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont,CNRS, UMR 6533, 63178 Aubière, France.
18 Werner Siemens Imaging Center, Department of Preclinical Imaging and Radiopharmacy, Eberhard Karls University Tuebingen, Roentgenweg 13, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany.
19 Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Eberhard Karls University Tuebingen, Sand 1, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany.
20 University of California Davis, Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
* e-mail: olga.kochebina@cea.fr
Published online: 15 October 2024
The GATE toolkit (GEANT4 Application for Tomographic Emission) is a GEANT4-based (GEometry ANd Tracking) platform for Monte Carlo simulations in medical physics. GATE applications can be divided into two main axes: radiation-based medical imaging and radiotherapy/dosimetry. The accurate modeling of the first one is crucial for system design and optimization as well as for development and refinement of image analysis algorithms. The importance of the precise simulation of the second is essential for characterisation of external beam radiotherapy (proton therapy and carbon ion therapy) and absorbed dose assessment. Within this paper, we discuss the main features of GATE and give a general view on applications, followed by insights into future development perspectives.
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