Geant4 physics list comparison for the simulation of phase-contrast mammography (XPulse project)

V. Beaudoux (1) , Guillaume Blin (1) , B. Barbrel (2) , G. Kantor (3) , C. Zacharatou (3)

1 LaBRI - Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique
2 ALPhANOV
3 Institut Bergonié [Bordeaux]

Breast cancer is the most frequent cancer in women. Early and accurate detection of the disease is a major factor in patient survival. To this end, phase-contrast imaging has gained significant interest in recent years. The aim of this work was to validate the physics models of a Geant4 mammography imaging simulation (in the context of the XPulse project) by comparing to EGSnrc results.

Domaines: Modélisation et simulation

V. Beaudoux, Guillaume Blin, B. Barbrel, G. Kantor, C. Zacharatou. Geant4 physics list comparison for the simulation of phase-contrast mammography (XPulse project). Physica Medica, 2019, 60, pp.66-75. ⟨10.1016/j.ejmp.2019.03.026⟩. ⟨hal-02120079⟩