First GATE/Geant4 Workshop

Wednesday 12 Sept 2007, 14:00 → 18:00 Europe/Zurich

Birchcliff Center

Irène Buvat (U678 Inserm UPMC), John Apostolakis

14:00 → 15:00 Introductory talks

14:00 Technical Overview of GATE

Speaker: Mrs Irène Buvat (U678 Inserm UPMC)

Slides gate_versus_g4_IB.pdf gate_versus_g4_IB.ppt

14:30 Geant4: the toolkit and the collaboration

Speaker: Dr John Apostolakis (CERN)

Slides Geant4-Toolkit_and-Collaboration.pdf Geant4-Toolkit_and-Collaboration.ppt

15:00 → 18:00 Geant4 functionalities and GATE

15:00 Overview of technical points regarding the use of Geant4 in the context of GATE

Speaker: Mr Nicolas Karakatsanis (National Technical University of Athens)

Slides G4-GATE_VRTmeeting_Manchester.pdf G4-GATE_VRTmeeting_Manchester.ppt

15:30 Specialised navigation for parameterized volumes

Speaker: Jan De Deenhouwer (University of Ghent)

Slides navigationFDCFD.pdf navigationFDCFD.ppt

16:00 Implementation of variance reduction in Geant4

Description of available techniques and validation of these techniques

Speaker: Alexander Howard (Unknown)

Slides Geant4-Variance-Reduction-AH.pdf Geant4-Variance-Reduction-AH.ppt

16:30 Implementation of variance reduction in GATE

Speakers: Jan De Deenhouwer (University of Ghent), Steven Staelens (University of Ghent)

Slides fdcfd.pdf fdcfd.ppt

17:00 Electron dose point kernels study in water

Speaker: Lydia Maigne (Unknown)

Slides Electron_DPK_12-09-07.pdf Electron_DPK_12-09-07.ppt

17:30 About a potential user-friendly installation of GATE

Speaker: Nicolas Spalinger (Clermont-Ferrand)

Slides user-friendly-gate.pdf