Penelope

Presentations and Articles related to PENEPMA and PENELOPE -- A Monte Carlo Simulation of Electron and Photon Transport
in Various Geometries

Updated: June 3, 2015

*****************WHAT IT IS**************************

PENELOPE was created by Francesc Salvat and colleagues at University of Barcelona, for modelling radiation treatment in humans, thus both complex geometries possible, as well as full following of X-rays and therefore secondary fluorescence. A version easily useful for EPMA was developed with the collaboration of Xavier Llovet, who runs the EPMA lab at the University of Barcelona.

*************Powerpoint Presentation*************

"Monte Carlo simulation of EPMA measurements on complex specimens using PENELOPE", the presentation of F. Salvat and X. Llovet for the 2006 M&M meeting in Chicago, and given at the PENEPMA workshop in Madison August 4, 2006

*************HOW TO RUN PENEPMA**************

There are now (2015) three (or four) ways to run PENEPMA:

pyPENELOPE -- python GUI interface developed by Philippe Pinard (Aachen probe lab). Full program. Very nice. Download it from the web. Here is a nice tutorial that will step you through the process of running it.
John Donovan has created a nice utility with assistance of Salvat and Llovet, to simply (in many cases) graphically visualize the contribution of secondary fluorescence from adjacent bodies. There is a nice tutorial (by Sheri Singerling) for this at the Probe Software "user forum" web site. Join the forum and get access to the tutorial.
You can also run PENEPMA 'the old fashioned way'. Donovan offers one version (though you must be very careful not to mix runs together, which is very easy). Alternatively, contact Llovet (address easily found on web) and get the most recent version (in June 2015, the most recent one was 2014, which had some very cool new features, for visualizing x-ray spatial distribution. But there is steep learning curve. You can also contact me and I perhaps can help you.

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Presentations and Articles related to PENEPMA and PENELOPE -- A Monte Carlo Simulation of Electron and Photon Transport in Various Geometries

Presentations and Articles related to PENEPMA and PENELOPE -- A Monte Carlo Simulation of Electron and Photon Transport
in Various Geometries