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.
11th February 2026: Release v1.1.1
Maintainance release.
Highlights:
- Bugfix: differential scorer unaffected by settings override #452
- Bugfix: differential scorer counted neutrons with 0 LET when scoring LET spectra #450
- Bugfix: memory corruption #449
- Bugfix: double-differential scorer not behaving correctly if second diff is logarithmic #446
- Docs: Improve documation on BOX body #444
- Improve code base and portability #448, #447
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.