[Gate-users] Does anyone know the penelope package for gate?

Simon Stute gate.stute at gmail.com
Mon Apr 19 11:04:04 CEST 2010


Hi All,

The Penelope processes implemented in G4 are all available in Gate_v6 (but
not in previous releases). See the user's guide.

Cheers,
Simon

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 11:00 AM, John Apostolakis <john.apostolakis at cern.ch
> wrote:

> Dear 张辉,
>
> It is Geant4 which has an implementation of Penelope (version 2001) physics
> models for low-energy electron, positron and gamma interactions.
>
> To enable this from GATE would require using a physics list based on these
> models.  Potentially this is already available via user command (GATE users
> or developers can comment).  Otherwise a simple change/addition in (GATE)
> source code could allow to use it.
>
> Best regards,
> John Apostolakis (Geant4)
>
>
> On 4/19/10 10:53 AM, 张辉 wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi everyone:
>>             This paper(A microCT X-ray head model for spectra generation
>> with Monte Carlo
>>
> > simulations; R. Taschereau, P.L. Chow, J.S. Cho and A.F. Chatziioannou
>
>  > ) mentioned the penelope package for gate to implement more precisely
>> the interaction of low-energy electrons, but I haven't found this package in
>> gate source code.Does anyone know how to get this code?
>>             Thanks a lot.
>>
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