what is an aapm tg?
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American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Task Group on Monte Carlo Validation Sets: Geant4 Related Findings Ioannis Sechopoulos, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Hematology and Medical Oncology Emory University Atlanta, USA. What is an AAPM TG?. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Task Group on Monte Carlo Validation Sets:
Geant4 Related Findings
Ioannis Sechopoulos, Ph.D.Assistant Professor of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Hematology and Medical Oncology
Emory UniversityAtlanta, USA
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What is an AAPM TG?• American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM):
– Scientific, educational and professional association of medical physicists
– 7,946 members– Publisher of Medical Physics journal, leading scientific
journal on medical physics– Annual meeting is largest medical physics meeting
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What is an AAPM TG?• AAPM Task Groups are committees formed for a specific
task– Final TG report has to be approved by TG and all
parent committees (normally 2-3)– Report is published on AAPM website and
summarized version in Medical Physics (after peer-review)
– TG reports become “unofficial” standards in the medical physics community
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Task Group Members
Ioannis Sechopoulos, Emory UniversitySteve Feng, Emory University
Samir Abboud, FDAAndreu Badal, FDAAldo Badano, FDA
Iacovos Kyprianou, FDAEhsan Samei, Duke University
Elsayed Ali, Carleton UniversityErnesto Mainegra, National Research Council of Canada
David Rogers, Carleton University
Michael McNitt-Gray, UCLAAdam Turner, University of Arizona
John Boone, UC Davis
Geant4
Penelope
EGSnrc
MCNP
Sierra
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Task Group Charge• Define a set of Monte Carlo simulations relevant to diagnostic
radiology• Provide all needed information
– Geometry– Source– Material composition– Energy spectra– Scoring– etc
• Provide results from a group of MC codes– Geant4, EGSnrc, MCNP, Penelope
• Investigators can use these “standardized” simulations as validation of their code
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Simulations Developed
• Currently diagnostic x-ray imaging• If successful, envision follow-up reports:
– Nuclear medicine– Radiotherapy?
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Simulations Developed• Production of x-rays• Half-value layers• Radiography (including tomosynthesis):
– Dose– X-ray scatter
• Mammography (including tomosynthesis):– Dose– X-ray scatter
• CT:– Dose in simple solids– Dose in voxelized phantom
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Geant4 Simulations
• v9.5 patch 1• Except where noted:
– G4EmLivermorePhysics– Cuts: 1.0 mm
• All elements are from NISTmanager
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Good Results
• Good matches in results have been found in:– Half value layer– Radiography (dose and scatter)– Mammography (dose and scatter)
• For example…
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Half-Value Layers(X-ray absorption in simple geometries)
• Mono-energetic and poly-energetic source of photons
• Aluminum absorber– Thickness set to
achieve HVL and QVL• Ideal, energy
discriminating photon counter detector
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Results Comparison
Geant4
Summary: Primary Only Total
30 keVHVL: 0.500 0.500QVL: 0.250 0.250
100 keVHVL: 0.499 0.499QVL: 0.249 0.249
30 kVpHVL: 0.525 0.525QVL: 0.269 0.269
100 kVpHVL: 0.504 0.504QVL: 0.253 0.253
Penelope
Summary: Primary Only Total
30 keVHVL: 0.500 0.500QVL: 0.254 0.254
100 keVHVL: 0.498 0.498QVL: 0.247 0.247
30 kVpHVL: 0.539 0.539QVL: 0.282 0.282
100 kVpHVL: 0.509 0.509QVL: 0.256 0.256
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Geant4 / PenelopeSummary: Primary Only Total
30 keVHVL: 1.00 1.00QVL: 1.02 1.02
100 keVHVL: 1.00 1.00QVL: 0.99 0.99
30 kVpHVL: 1.03 1.03QVL: 1.05 1.05
100 kVpHVL: 1.01 1.01QVL: 1.01 1.01
Geant4 and Penelope match well in simple simulations of photon absorption with simple geometries
Results from other MC codes are coming.
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Problems encountered in other simulations
• Simple and voxelized CT– Still investigating
• X-ray generation– Problems with:
• G4EmLivermorePhysics• Splitting
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Example of Mismatch Still Under Investigation:CT with Simple Volumes
• Simulation of CT with simple CT phantom solid
• Dose at two small cylinders from rotating photon source
• Mono-energetic and poly-energetic photon source
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Geant4 Results
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Penelope / EGSnrc
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Penelope / Geant4(similar to EGSnrc / Geant4)
So there is some error there, but still not sure where. Under investigation.
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Problems with G4:Production of X-rays
Mo or W 30 keV (Mo) or & 100 keV (W)
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Production of X-RaysMo Target, 30 keV electrons
Characteristic emissions after ionization
Measurements with filter in place
Semi-empirical model, only inherent filtration
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Production of X-RaysMo Target, 30 keV electrons
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Production of X-RaysMo Target, 30 keV electrons
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Production of X-RaysW Target, 100 keV electrons
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Production of X-RaysW Target, 100 keV electrons
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Production of X-RaysW Target, 100 keV electrons
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Production of X-RaysW Target, 100 keV electrons
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Production of X-Rays
• So characteristic emission from electron interaction with materials seems too low.
• Tracking output showed that:– NO characteristic emission after ionization
was taking place– The low peak is from characteristic emission
after photoelectric effect from bremsstrahlung x-rays
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Similar test with TestEm5emLivermore
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Similar test with TestEm5emPenelope
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Biased Bremsstrahlung with /process/em/setSecBiasing
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N x-rays
ph
ph
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Weight = 1/NPhotoelectriceffect
Characteristic emission
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Weight = 1
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Biased Bremsstrahlung with /process/em/setSecBiasing
• Vladimir Ivantchenko provided a patch for this problem (April 2012).
• Patch works if applied to v9.5p1, but does not fix the issue if applied to v9.5.– This was also seen by another investigator.
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Summary• The task group is still working on obtaining all MC results
and comparing them.– Hopefully I can present final results next year!
• ~Half of result comparisons up to now have shown good match
• 2 different cases need further investigation• In 1 case (x-ray production) problems were identified with
emLivermore– Daughter generation after atomic de-excitation is too low/non-
existent– Splitting weights was inconsistent (patch fix ready for v9.5p1)– emPenelope gives correct results
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