Secondary beam fragments produced by 200 MeV u-1 12C ions in water and their dose contributions in carbon ion radiotherapy

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Gunzert Marx, K ^a,b   Iwase, H ^a,c   Schardt, D ^a   Simon, R S ^a  

^a GSI HELMHOLTZZENTRUM FÜR SCHWERIONENFORSCHUNG GMBH   (Germany)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^c HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION KEK   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAVY ION RADIOTHERAPY; SECONDARY BEAMS; HEAVY-ION RADIOTHERAPY;

ELECTROTHERAPEUTICS;

EID: 48249099278     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/10/7/075003     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Kraft G 2000 Tumor therapy with heavy charged particles Prog. Part. Nucl. Phys. 45 S473-544
2. Tsujii H et al 2004 Overview of clinical experiences on carbon ion radiotherapy at NIRS Radiother. Oncol. 73S41-9
3. Schulz-Ertner D et al 2004 Results of carbon ion radiotherapy in 152 patients Int. J. Radial Oncol. Biol. Phys. 58 631-40
4. Nikoghosysan A et al 2004 Evaluation of therapeutic potential of heavy ion therapy for patients with locally advanced prostate cancer Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 58 89-97
5. Schulz-Ertner A et al 2005 Therapy strategies for locally advanced adenoid cystic carcinomas using modern radiation therapy techniques Cancer 104 338-44
6. Serber R 1947 Nuclear reactions at high energies Phys. Rev. 72 1114-5
7. Schardt D, Steidl P, Krämer M, Weber U, Parodi K and Brons S 2008 GSI Scientific Report 2007 in preparation
8. Sihver L, Schardt D and Kanai T 1998 Depth-dose distributions of high-energy carbon, oxygen and neon beams in water Japan. J. Med. Phys. 18 1-21
9. Krämer M, Jäkel O, Haberer T, Kraft G, Schardt D and Weber U 2000 Treatment planning for heavy-ion radiotherapy: physical beam model and dose optimization Phys. Med. Biol. 45 3299-317
10. Krämer M and Scholz M 2000 Treatment planning for heavy-ion radiotherapy: calculation and optimization of biologically effective dose Phys. Med. Biol 45 3319-30
11. Schimmerling W, Vosburgh K and Todd P 1971 Interaction of 3.9 GeV nitrogen ions with matter Science 174 1123-5
12. Schimmerling W, Miller J, Wong M, Rapkin M, Howard J, Spieler H G and Jarret B V 1989 The fragmentation of 670MeV/u neon-20 as a function of depth in water Radiat. Res. 120 36-71
13. Schall I et al 1996 Charge-changing nuclear reactions of relativistic light-ion beams (56 ≤ Z ≤; 10) passing through thick absorbers Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. B 117 221-34
14. Golovkov M, Aleksandrov D, Chulkov L, Kraus G and Schardt D et al 1997 Fragmentation of 270MeV/u carbon ions in water Advances in Hadrontherapy (Excerpta Medica International Congress Series vol 1144) ed U Amaldi, B Larsson and Y Lemoigne (Amsterdam: Elsevier) p 316
15. Matsufuji N et al 2003 Influence of fragment reaction of relativistic heavy charged particles on heavy-ion radiotherapy Phys. Med. Biol. 48 1605-23
16. Matsufuji N et al 2005 Spatial fragment distribution from a therapeutic pencil-like carbon beam in water Phys. Med. Biol. 50 3393-403
17. Cecil R et al 1980 Neutron angular and energy distribution from 710MeV alphas stopping in water, carbon, steel and lead and 640MeV alphas stopping in lead Phys. Rev. C 21 2471-84
18. Kurosawa T et al 1999 Measurements of secondary neutrons produced from thick targets bombarded by high-energy helium and carbon ions Nucl. Sci. Eng. C 132 30-56
19. Kurosawa T et al 1999 Spectral measurements of neutrons, protons, deuterons, tritons produced by 100 MeV/nucleon He ion Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A 430 400-22
20. Heilbronn L et al 1999 Neutron yields from 155 MeV/nucleon carbon and helium stopping in aluminium Nucl. Sci. Eng. 132 1-15
21. 2-Teleskop-Detektor PhD Thesis (in German) Technische Universität Darmstadt, Fachbereich Physik
22. 12C beam Radiat. Prot. Dosim. 110 595-600
23. Scheidenberger C 1994 PhD Thesis Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen Schwab T 1991 GSI-Report 91-10 (see also http://www-linux.gsi.de/~weick/atima/)
24. 2 scintillation detector to quasi-monoenergetic fast neutrons in the range of 45 to 198MeV Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. A 536 146-53
25. Essel H G and Kurz N 2000 The general purpose data acquisition system MBS IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 47 337-9
26. ICRU 2001 Nuclear data for neutron and proton radiotherapy and for radiation protection ICRU Report 63
27. 56FePhys. Rev. C14 590-5
28. Tripathi R, Cucinotta F and Wilson J 1997 Universal parametrization of absorption cross sections NASA Tech. Pap. 3621
29. Niita K, Sato T, Iwase H, Nose H, Nakashima H and Sihver L 2004 Particle and heavy ion transport code system PHITS Proc. Symp. Nucl. Data (JAERI, Tokai, Japan, JAERI-Conf2004-005) p 33
30. Niita K, Chiba S, Maruyama T, Takada H, Fukahori T, Nakahara Y and Iwamoto A 1995 Analysis of the (N,xN′) reactions by quantum molecular dynamics plus statistical decay model Phys. Rev. C 52 2620-35
31. Furihata S 2000 Statistical analysis of light fragment production from medium energy proton-induced reactions Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res. B 171 251-8
32. ICRU 2001 Determination of Operational Dose Equivalent Quantities for Neutrons ICRU Report 66 (Bethesda, MD: ICRU)
33. ICRP 1997 Conversion coefficients for use in radiological protection against external radiation ICRP Publication 74 (Amsterdam: Elsevier)
34. Iwase H, Gunzert-Marx K, Haettner E, Schardt D, Gutermuth F, Krämer M and Kraft G 2007 Experimental and theoretical study of the neutron dose produced by carbon ion therapy beams Radiat. Prot. Dosim. 126 615-8
35. Olsher R H, Hsu H-H, Beverding A, Kleck J H, Casson W H, Vasilik D G and Devine R T 2000 WENDI: an improved neutron rem meter Health Phys. 79 170-81
36. Pshenichnov I, Mishustin I and Greiner W 2005 Neutrons from fragmentation of light nuclei in tissue-like media: a study with the GEANT4 toolkit Phys. Med. Biol. 50 5493-507
37. Ferrari A and Pelliccioni M 1998 Fluence to dose equivalent conversion data and effective quality factors for high energy neutrons Radiat. Prot. Dosim. 7 215-24
38. Schneider U, Agosteo S, Pedroni E and Besserer J 2002 Secondary neutron dose during proton therapy using spot scanning Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 53 244-51
39. Yan X, Titt U, Koehler A M and Newhauser W D 2002 Measurement of neutron dose equivalent to proton therapy patients outside of the proton radiation field Nucl. Instrum, Methods Phys. Res. A 476 429-34
40. Agosteo S, Birattari C, Caravaggio M, Silari M and Tosi G 1998 Secondary neutron and photon dose in proton therapy Radiother. Oncol. 48 293-305
41. Binns P J and Hough J H 1997 Secondary dose exposures during 200MeV proton therapy Radiat. Prot. Dosim. 70 441-4