This meeting of the
Geant4 North American Medical Users Organization
will be held at SLAC the day before the four day
Geant4 Tutorial.
- 09:00 - 09:15 - Introduction to the G4NAMU meeting - Joseph Perl
(ppt,
pdf)
- Activities Abroad
- 09:15 - 09:45 - Geant4 medical activities in Japan - Takashi Sasaki (KEK)
(ppt,
pdf)
- 09:45 - 10:15 - The Geant4 DNA project plus a survey of Geant4 medical activities in Europe - Sebastien Incerti (IN2P3)
(ppt,
pdf)
- 10:15 - 10:45 - Break
- Benchmark Problems from the Computational Medical Physics Working Group of the American Nuclear Society
- 10:45 - 11:00 - What is this benchmark activity and why is it important that G4NAMU address it - Harald Paganetti (Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard)
(ppt,
pdf)
- 11:00 - 11:30 - General Discussion: Who will work on these problems
- Reports from G4NAMU members on ongoing activities - I
- 11:30 - 11:50 - New features and improvements in Geant4 release 8.0 of interest to medical users - Joseph Perl (SLAC)
(ppt,
pdf)
- 11:50 - 12:10 - An accurate experimental benchmark of bremsstrahlung for radiotherapy quality beams - Bruce Faddegon (University of California, San Francisco)
(ppt,
pdf)
- 12:10 - 13:30 - Lunch
- Reports from G4NAMU members on ongoing activities - II
- 13:30 - 13:50 - Inhomogeneous Tissue Studies for Clinical Proton Therapy: Universal Depth-Dose Scaling and Interfacial Build-up Effects - Dan Fry (Walter Reed Army Medical Center)
(ppt,
pdf)
- 13:50 - 14:10 - Geant4 for Dosimetric Study of an Intracavitary Brachytherapy Applicator - Frank Verhaegen (McGill University)
(ppt,
pdf)
- 14:10 - 14:30 - Overview of Geant4 Medical Activites at Jefferson Lab - Paul Gueye (Hampton University)
(ppt,
pdf)
- 14:30 - 14:45 - Validation Activites at SLAC of Relevance to Medical Users - Tatsumi Koi (SLAC)
(ppt,
pdf)
- 14:45 - 15:00 - Computerized Anatomical Male/Female Geometry Models - Thomas Jordan (E.M.P. Consultants)
(ppt,
pdf)
- 15:00 - 15:30 - Break
- Open Discussion
- 15:30 - 16:15 - Medical user requirements
(ppt,
pdf)
- 16:15 - 16:30 - G4NAMU at 2006 AAPM annual meeting
(ppt,
pdf)
- 16:30 - 17:00 - G4NAMU organization of working groups
(ppt,
pdf)
- (or rebalance above time to add any other discussion items of interest to the group)
- 17:00 - Adjourn
For more information about the Geant4 North American Medical Users Organization, see the
G4NAMU Home Page.
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