Targeting Cancer: Simulation Tools to Improve Radiation Therapy

Dr. Joseph Perl
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Darwin 103
3:00 PM

Dr. Joseph Perl of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Scientific Computing Applications Group discusses how he and his colleagues are turning the simulation toolkit Geant4 into a powerful application for medical physicists. Originally designed to track subatomic particles in high-energy physics experiments, Geant4 can also map proton paths through patients' bodies during radiation treatment. [Available on DVD in the SSU library.]