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GATE (Geant4 Application for Tomographic Emission) is a user-friendly environment and an open source software. It presents a new release of specific codes despite it was initially focused on imaging simulations like CTscanner, PET and SPECT. The new version v8.2 (February, 2019) offers new tools dedicated to brachytherapy and especially to radiation therapy simulations. The aim of this work is to simulate the interaction and distribution of particles in the dependent-patient part of a 6 MV X-Ray Beam, generated by Elekta linac, based on Monte Carlo Simulation, using GATE software. In order to accelerate our simulation, the phase space (PS) data freely available in the International Atomic Energy Agency database and cluster computing (Slurm HPC-MARWAN, CNRST, Morocco) are used. However, the results show that there are many interactions at all positions and internal structures of the dependent patient part. Thus, contribution of electrons and positrons appears in the created field previously designed to be an X-ray beam.
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Krim, De., Rrhioua, A., Bakari, D., Zerfaoui, M., Oulhouq, Y. (2020). Running GATE Software on Moroccan Cluster Computing to Simulate Particle Interactions Within Linear Accelerator System. In: El Moussati, A., Kpalma, K., Ghaouth Belkasmi, M., Saber, M., Guégan, S. (eds) Advances in Smart Technologies Applications and Case Studies. SmartICT 2019. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 684. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53187-4_72
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