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Microdosimetry extensions for TOPAS

  • Jan Schuemann and Hongyu Zhu. First implementation. 11/2019
  • Jose Ramos-Mendez. Update to OpenTOPAS v4.0/Geant4 v11.1.3 05/2024

The microdosimetry extension provides settings for common microdosimeters, scoring of lineal energy (y/dy) and a biological weight function based on microdosimetric properties.

The extension is described in:

📚 Zhu, H., Chen, Y., Sung, W., McNamara, A. L., Tran, L. T., Burigo, L. N., et al. (2019). The microdosimetric extension in TOPAS: development and comparison with published data. Physics in Medicine and Biology, 64(14), 145004. http://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/ab23a3

Installation.

Note

The main difference in installing for Debian/Ubuntu and MacOS is the installation paths.

Tip

Users can install multiple extensions by either:

  • Copy all the Extension directories into a common global directory, or
  • Using the \; between directory paths: -DTOPAS_EXTENSIONS_DIR=/MyProject1Extensions/\;/MyProject2Extensions/

Debian

Follow installation for Debian/Ubuntu procedures after and including step 8.4. Then:

$ cd $HOME/Applications/

Clone the repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/OpenTOPAS/OpenTOPAS-Microdosimetry.git

Return to the topas-build directory:

$ cd $HOME/Applications/TOPAS/OpenTOPAS-build

Repeat cmake command by including the TOPAS_EXTENSIONS_DIR variable as follows (don't miss the -D):

$ cmake ../OpenTOPAS -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=../OpenTOPAS-install -DTOPAS_EXTENSIONS_DIR=$HOME/Applications/OpenTOPAS-Microdosimetry

Build:

$ make -j8 install

MacOS

Follow installation for MacOS procedures after and including step 7.4. Then:

$ cd /Applications

Clone the repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/OpenTOPAS/OpenTOPAS-Microdosimetry.git

Return to the topas-build directory:

$ cd /Applications/TOPAS/OpenTOPAS-build

Repeat cmake command by including the TOPAS_EXTENSIONS_DIR variable as follows (don't miss the -D):

$ cmake ../OpenTOPAS -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=../OpenTOPAS-install -DTOPAS_EXTENSIONS_DIR=/Applications/OpenTOPAS-Microdosimetry

Build:

$ make -j8 install