doiPETPhysicsList.cc

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//GEANT4 - Depth-of-Interaction enabled Positron emission tomography (PET) advanced example 

                  //Authors and contributors

// Author list to be updated, with names of co-authors and contributors from National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS)

// Abdella M. Ahmed (1, 2), Andrew Chacon (1, 2), Harley Rutherford (1, 2),
// Hideaki Tashima (3), Go Akamatsu (3), Akram Mohammadi (3), Eiji Yoshida (3), Taiga Yamaya (3)
// Susanna Guatelli (2), and Mitra Safavi-Naeini (1, 2)

// (1) Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Australia
// (2) University of Wollongong, Australia
// (3) National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Japan


#include "doiPETPhysicsList.hh"
#include "G4EmStandardPhysics_option3.hh"
#include "G4DecayPhysics.hh"
#include "G4RadioactiveDecayPhysics.hh"
#include "G4EmStandardPhysics.hh"
#include "G4SystemOfUnits.hh"


doiPETPhysicsList::doiPETPhysicsList():  G4VModularPhysicsList()
{
  SetVerboseLevel(1); 

  // EM physics
  emPhysicsList = new G4EmStandardPhysics_option3(1);

  decayPhysicsList = new G4DecayPhysics(); //decay physics
  raddecayList = new G4RadioactiveDecayPhysics(); //radioactive decay

}

doiPETPhysicsList::~doiPETPhysicsList()
{  
  delete emPhysicsList;
  delete decayPhysicsList;
  delete raddecayList;
}

void doiPETPhysicsList::ConstructParticle()
{
  decayPhysicsList -> ConstructParticle();
}

void doiPETPhysicsList::ConstructProcess()
{
  AddTransportation();

  //decay physics list
  decayPhysicsList -> ConstructProcess();

  // radioactive decay physics list
  raddecayList->ConstructProcess();

  // electromagnetic physics list
  emPhysicsList->ConstructProcess();
}



void doiPETPhysicsList::SetCuts()
{
  // Definition of  threshold of production of secondary particles
  defaultCutValue = 0.1* mm; //0.1mm
  SetCutValue(defaultCutValue, "gamma");
  SetCutValue(defaultCutValue, "e-");
  SetCutValue(defaultCutValue, "e+");

  if (verboseLevel>0) DumpCutValuesTable();
}