AW: CT-Scan to Fluka conversion

Dear Ali,

There is no direct or easy way of doing this. You have to find a way
to extract the information from the DICOM CT and write it into a file the
writegolem.f program can read. Additionally you need to define the materials
for each CT number, i.e. you need a material-CT number lookup
table (which is usually dependent of the tomograph and the protocol it is running).
A good starting point is the paper:
Schneider etal. Correlation between CT numbers and tissue parameters
needed for Monte Carlo simulations of clinical dose distributions
Phys. Med. Biol. 45 459

For the beam you need to extract the information somehow from the DICOM plan.
In the simplest case it can be described via the BEAM card but in general
you will need to write a dedicated source.f file.
You can find a description in:
Parodi etal. Clinical CT-based calculations of dose and positron emitter
distributions in proton therapy using the FLUKA Monte Carlo code
Phys. Med. Biol. 2007 52 3369

Hope that helps,
Florian

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Dipl.-Ing. Dr. techn. Florian Sommerer
Physiker
Radiologische Klinik / Heidelberger Ionenstrahl-Therapiezentrum
Florian.Sommerer_at_med.uni-heidelberg.de
Im Neuenheimer Feld 450
69120 Heidelberg
Germany
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Gesendet: Donnerstag, 9. Dezember 2010 05:53
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Betreff: CT-Scan to Fluka conversion
Hi everybody
I want to convert a dicom file to Fluka inputs. I don't know what should I do.
Regards
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Ali Koosha