About SHIELD-HIT12A

SHIELD-HIT12A is a Monte Carlo particle transport program which is modified for proton and heavy ion particle therapy reserach. It was forked from SHIELD-HIT in 2008 with the aim to modernize and implement new features, increasing the applicability for medical physics.

19th April 2024: Release v1.1.0

Highlights:

  • Added phase-space scorer. #51
  • Bugfix: proper setting of average flag in .bdo file. #413
  • Bugfix: hangs on Windows11. #421
  • Bugfix: proper scoring of variance, when requested #431
  • Bugfix: segfault on Ubuntu systems. #438
  • Bugfix: rare case wrong z when scoring secondary particles. #439

See the ChangeLog for details.

 

Current Developers

  • Niels Bassler
  • Leszek Grzanka
  • Nikolai Sobolevsky

 

Previous Contributors

  • David C. Hansen
  • Armin Lühr
  • Toke Printz
  • Vicki Trier Taasti
  • Bjarne Thomsen

 

Acknowledgments

This work was partially supported by funds from the Danish Cancer Society and NovoNordisk Fonden.