doiPET/src/doiPETPhysicsList.cc

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0025
0026 //GEANT4 - Depth-of-Interaction enabled Positron emission tomography (PET) advanced example
0027
0028                                     //Authors and contributors
0029
0030 // Author list to be updated, with names of co-authors and contributors from National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS)
0031
0032 // Abdella M. Ahmed (1, 2), Andrew Chacon (1, 2), Harley Rutherford (1, 2),
0033 // Hideaki Tashima (3), Go Akamatsu (3), Akram Mohammadi (3), Eiji Yoshida (3), Taiga Yamaya (3)
0034 // Susanna Guatelli (2), and Mitra Safavi-Naeini (1, 2)
0035
0036 // (1) Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Australia
0037 // (2) University of Wollongong, Australia
0038 // (3) National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Japan
0039
0040
0041 #include "doiPETPhysicsList.hh"
0042 #include "G4EmStandardPhysics_option3.hh"
0043 #include "G4DecayPhysics.hh"
0044 #include "G4RadioactiveDecayPhysics.hh"
0045 #include "G4EmStandardPhysics.hh"
0046 #include "G4SystemOfUnits.hh"
0047
0048
0049 doiPETPhysicsList::doiPETPhysicsList():  G4VModularPhysicsList()
0050 {
0051     SetVerboseLevel(1);
0052
0053     // EM physics
0054     emPhysicsList = new G4EmStandardPhysics_option3(1);
0055
0056     decayPhysicsList = new G4DecayPhysics(); //decay physics
0057     raddecayList = new G4RadioactiveDecayPhysics(); //radioactive decay
0058
0059 }
0060
0061 doiPETPhysicsList::~doiPETPhysicsList()
0062 {
0063     delete emPhysicsList;
0064     delete decayPhysicsList;
0065     delete raddecayList;
0066 }
0067
0068 void doiPETPhysicsList::ConstructParticle()
0069 {
0070     decayPhysicsList -> ConstructParticle();
0071 }
0072
0073 void doiPETPhysicsList::ConstructProcess()
0074 {
0075     AddTransportation();
0076
0077     //decay physics list
0078     decayPhysicsList -> ConstructProcess();
0079
0080     // radioactive decay physics list
0081     raddecayList->ConstructProcess();
0082
0083     // electromagnetic physics list
0084     emPhysicsList->ConstructProcess();
0085 }
0086
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0088
0089 void doiPETPhysicsList::SetCuts()
0090 {
0091     // Definition of  threshold of production of secondary particles
0092     defaultCutValue = 0.1* mm; //0.1mm
0093     SetCutValue(defaultCutValue, "gamma");
0094     SetCutValue(defaultCutValue, "e-");
0095     SetCutValue(defaultCutValue, "e+");
0096
0097     if (verboseLevel>0) DumpCutValuesTable();
0098 }
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