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The Software with a Graphical User Interface for GAMOS: Basic Training and an Educational Tool for Medical Physicists Cover

The Software with a Graphical User Interface for GAMOS: Basic Training and an Educational Tool for Medical Physicists

Open Access
|Mar 2023

Abstract

Introduction: It is necessary to have special experience to perform the Monte Carlo calculation, commonly used in medical physics and accepted as the gold standard. In this study, we developed software to teach basic steps to medical physicists who were inexperienced in the medical linear accelerator Monte Carlo simulation.

Material and methods: For the design interface, a software called GamosLinacGUI was developed using Gnome Builder, Python, and GTK. The user, who wants to learn the basics of GAMOS and simulate a linear accelerator, can enter the values in the software, select some options and quickly create geometry and physics files.

Results: For proof that the software generates the correct inputs for GAMOS simulation in the same conditions for the measurements and calculations. Required files for GAMOS have been created and tested and run the simulation accordingly. This software was tested with Centos Linux.

Conclusions: GamosLinacGUI has been successfully developed, which creates the geometry and physics files required for the simulation with GAMOS as a training and learning tool.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pjmpe-2023-0005 | Journal eISSN: 1898-0309 | Journal ISSN: 1425-4689
Language: English
Page range: 42 - 49
Submitted on: Aug 7, 2022
Accepted on: Jan 17, 2023
Published on: Mar 8, 2023
Published by: Polish Society of Medical Physics
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2023 Recep Kandemir, İsmail Özsoykal, Kadir Akgüngör, published by Polish Society of Medical Physics
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