PHITS user's manual and lecture notes
User's Manual
The latest version is 3.34
[ 3.34 ] 2024/04/19
(Old versions)
[ 3.31 ] 2023/04/19
[ 3.27 ] 2022/03/31
[ 3.24 ] 2021/03/26
[ 3.20 ] 2020/04/09
[ 3.17 ] 2019/10/31
[ 3.10 ] 2019/04/09
[ 3.02 ] 2017/12/05
[ 2.88 ] 2016/09/30
[ 2.82 ] 2015/12/24
[ 2.76 ] 2015/03/20
[ 2.64 ] 2014/02/19
[ 2.52 ] 2013/03/05
[ 2.30a ] 2011/12/02
[ 2.30 ] 2011/08/18
[ 2.23 ] 2010/10/04
Lecture notes
[YouTube tutorial videos are available (
Playlist here)]
Each file
- Basic knowledge of radiation physics (ppt, 6.4MB, 2022/09/14) NEW!
YouTube
- PHITS introduction (pdf, 11MB, 2022/09/14) UPDATE!
YouTube
Basic Lecture
Exercises
- Exercises: How to stop α, β, γ-rays and neutrons? (pptx, 1.9MB, 2022/09/14) UPDATE!
YouTube
- Exercises: Melt a snowman by proton beam (pptx, 1.7MB, 2022/09/14) UPDATE!
YouTube
- Exercises: Exercises using Recommendation Settings and Utilities (ppt, 5.8MB, 2016/05/17)
- Exercises: Shielding exercise (ppt, 0.7MB, 2017/01/10)
Advanced Lecture
- Advanced Lecture: Useful Functions(pptx, 1.3MB, 2019/02/07)
- Advanced Lecture: Variance Reduction Techniques to Improve Efficiency of Calculation A (ppt, 1.9MB, 2018/08/17)
- Advanced Lecture: Variance Reduction Techniques to Improve Efficiency of Calculation B (ppt, 4.1MB, 2019/04/09)
- Advanced Lecture: Making Voxel Phantom (ppt, 2.3MB, 2016/05/17)
- Advanced Lecture: Setting of various source Part I (ppt, 1.6MB, 2018/08/17)
- Advanced Lecture: Setting of various source Part II (ppt, 0.9MB, 2018/06/29)
- Advanced Lecture: Connection between PHITS and DCHAIN-SP (ppt, 1.0MB, 2018/08/17)
Utilities
Guidance for group work (sample)
Medical physics exercises
Download zip file (including sample input files)
- Basic Lecture (zip, 14.8MB, 2019/04/09)
- Exercises (zip, 22.5MB, 2019/04/09)
- Advanced Lecture (zip, 46.0MB, 2021/07/13)
- DICOM2PHITS (zip, 23.1MB, 2016/10/28)
- Recommendation Settings (zip, 9.0MB, 2019/04/09)
Operation environment
Recommended PC environment
OS: Windows (10 or higher), Mac (macOS 10.13 or higher), or Linux
System memory: 4 GB or larger
Hard disk: 11 GB or larger
Required Software
7zip is required to extract the compressed PHITS contents (phits.7z). Ghostscript
and SumatraPDF(only for Windows) are required to see PHITS graphical output
file in eps format. PHITS-Pad or other text editors such as Notepad++ and
Terapad are required to edit PHITS input file. These software are included
in the PHITS installation package. If you want to obtain their latest version,
please visit the link below.
File archiver: 7-zip
Text editor for Windows: Notepad++
EPS interpreter: Ghostscript
EPS viewer: SumatraPDF
About compiling
PHITS is a Fortran program for particle transport simulation based on Monte Carlo
method. We prepared installer of PHITS, so you do not have to compile PHITS by yourself.
On the other hand, re-compile of PHITS is required to extend memory used in PHITS calculations and define your own source using the usrsors.f file.
Fortran compiler is required to compile PHITS.
Recommended compiler
Recommended Fortran compilers are Intel Fortran 11.1 (or later).
OneAPI Intel Fortran Complier is freely available.
For instlation of the complier and the compilation of PHITS, please see details.