Investigation of the HDF5 C++ Library in Development of New Phase-Space I/O for Radiotherapy Simulation Using Monte Carlo Geant4 Code

Jaafar EL Bakkali; Abderrahim Doudouh; Khalid Bouyakhlef; Laila Baddouh; Keltoum Dahmani; Hamid Mansouri

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Investigation of the HDF5 C++ Library in Development of New Phase-Space I/O for Radiotherapy Simulation Using Monte Carlo Geant4 Code

Jaafar EL Bakkali, Abderrahim Doudouh, Khalid Bouyakhlef, Laila Baddouh, Keltoum Dahmani, Hamid Mansouri

Published in American Journal of Mathematical and Computer Modelling (Volume 1, Issue 1)

Received: 23 October 2016 Accepted: 3 November 2016 Published: 23 November 2016

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Abstract

This study aimed to develop a new phase-space tool for Geant4 code using the HDF5 C++ scientific data library. The tool can be easy incorporated into existing Geant4 applications and provides particle recycling and rotational splitting capabilities which can be useful for faster modeling symmetric systems such as medical linear accelerator. The validation of this phase-space I/O routines has been performed in a very basic geometry. Thus, taking into account a homogeneous water phantom, the depth dose curve of a 20 MeV electron beam hitting a small target made of tungsten has been calculated and compared to ones produced in the simulation without phase-space technique and simulation with IAEA phase-space I/O routines. This study shown an excellent agreement found between different calculated depth dose curves, allowing us to validate our new phase-space I/O routines. Moreover, the CPU time spent by simulation without variance reduction technique can be reduced by 27% when this method was applied which is the same factor obtained with IAEA phase-space I/O routines. The phase-space tool describing in this paper, have been implemented for Geant4 code by using HDF5 C++ data managing library, the associated classes are few and easy to incorporate into an existing Geant4 user code, and it is freely available on GitHub ( https://github.com/EL-Bakkali-Jaafar/G4PhpH5/).

Published in	American Journal of Mathematical and Computer Modelling (Volume 1, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.ajmcm.20160101.14
Page(s)	25-31
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Geant4, Phase-Space, Hdf5, C++, Variance Reduction Technique, Monte Carlo

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Jaafar EL Bakkali

Nuclear Medicine Department, Military Hospital Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco
Abderrahim Doudouh

Nuclear Medicine Department, Military Hospital Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco
Khalid Bouyakhlef

University Mohammed V, Souissi, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Rabat, Morocco
Laila Baddouh

Radiotherapy Department, Military Hospital Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco
Keltoum Dahmani

Radiotherapy Department, Military Hospital Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco
Hamid Mansouri

Radiotherapy Department, Military Hospital Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco

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