Simulation and Experiment Meeting 20th November 2018

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10:30 Room 532, Blackett Lab.

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Agenda

• Status updates
• Geant4 User conference - summary and discussion.
• AOB

Notes

Present: HT, Ruth, Will, Ollie, Ajit

• HT
  • Fixed the emittance issue.
  • Operating point moved away from vertical resonance but at cost of intensity.
• Ruth
  • Lectures with bio-engineering.
  • Case studentship preparation.
  • Keen to do small fields with x-rays.
  • Think about how you can do patient specific dosimetry.
  • Do something comparable with the amorphous silicon detector. Would like independent verification of the calibration.
  • FLASH RT: Stanford did cell and mice irradiation.
  • John is keen on FLASH electron irradiation on patients.
  • Hammersmith linac in a bunker in the hospital.
  • AK to set up a meeting.
  • Imaging
    • Need to integrate with commercial code.
    • Extracting from DICOM files doesn't always work perfectly.
  • Genomics information mining.
    • Based on functional MRI and PET/CT data.
    • Most patients will often have a basic MRI as part of diagnosis.
  • Camarie working on auto-contouring PhD.
• Will
  • Looking at LARA beam line in BDSIM.
  • Discrepancy in the solenoids being propagated downstream. Beam matches starting after solenoids.
• Ollie
  • Working on safety documentation for laser downstairs. Will hopefully be ready by the end of the year.
  • Ollie to send output from EPOCH simulation.

• G4 User Conference. Lots of interesting talks.
  • Laser-driven ion beams
    • Paris keen to collaborate.
    • Ollie to dig out contacts.
  • Dosimetry.
    • MedAustron using G4 to do patient specific dosimetry.