Geant4 Radiation Labs

A four-lab series taking you from a fresh Linux install to a working PET-scanner simulation, using Geant4 for the physics and Python (pandas, matplotlib) for analysis.

Read the labs at: https://jwinterm.github.io/geant4-radiation-labs/

Labs

	Title	Topic
1	Setting Up Linux and Building Geant4	Ubuntu VM + Geant4 build with Qt visualization
2	First Simulation: Building and Running B1	Compile B1, run interactively + via macros, vary particle/energy
3	Acquiring and Analyzing Simulation Data	Patch B1 to write CSV via G4AnalysisManager; analyze in Python
4	Medical Physics Application: A PET Scanner	Use B3a PET example; identify 511 keV photopeak; reconstruct lines of response

Building locally

This site is built with Quarto. To preview locally:

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To regenerate a single lab as PDF:

quarto render lab1_setup/lab1.qmd --to pdf

Authors

John Murphy and Steven Carlson