Analysis of the physical interactions of therapeutic proton beams in water with the use of Geant4 Monte Carlo calculations

Zeitschrift fur Medizinische Physik

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 174-181

  Morávek, Zdenek ^a   Bogner, Ludwig ^a  

^a University Clinics Regensburg   (Germany)

Author keywords

Geant4; neutron dose; nuclear interactions; secondary particles

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON RADIATION; IONIZATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUTRON RADIATION; PHANTOM; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; WATER;

EID: 68149174108     PISSN: 09393889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.zemedi.2009.04.006     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Medin J, Andreo P. PETRA-Monte Carlo simulation of proton and electron transport in water. Internal Report MSF 1997-01, Department of Medical Radiation Physics, Stockholm university (1997).
2. Agostinelli S., Allison J., Amako K., et al. Geant 4 - a simulation toolkit. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 506 (2003) 250-303
3. Fippel M., and Soukup M. A Monte Carlo dose algorithm for proton therapy. Med Phys 31 (2004) 2263-2273
4. Jiang H., Wanǵ B., Xu X.G., et al. Simulation of organ-specific patient effective dose due to secondary neutrons in proton radiation treatment. Phys Med Biol 50 (2005) 337-4353
5. Schneider U., Agosteo S., Pedroni E., et al. Secondary neutron dose during proton therapy using spot scanning. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 53 (2002) 244-251
6. Agosteo S., Birattari C., Caravaggio M., et al. Secondary neutron and photon dose in proton therapy. Radiother Oncol 48 (1998) 293-305
7. Gottschalk B., Platais R., and Paganetti H. Nuclear interactions of 160 MeV protons stopping in copper: A test of Monte Carlo nuclear models. Med Phys 26 (1999) 2597-2601
8. Paganetti H. Nuclear interactions in proton therapy: dose and relative biological effect distributions originating from primary and secondary particles. Phys Med Biol 47 (2002) 747-764
9. Wroe A., Cornelius I.M., and Rosenfeld A.B. The role of nonelastic reactions in absorbed dose distributions from therapeutic proton beams in different medium. Med Phys 32 (2005) 37-41
10. Pschenichnov I., Mischustin I., and Greiner W. Neutrons from fragmentation of light nuclei in tissue-like media: a study with the Geant4 toolkit. Phys Med Biol 50 (2005) 5493-5507
11. Pedroni E., Scheib S., and Böhringer T. Experimental characterisation and physical modelling of the dose distribution of scanned proton pencil beams. Phys Med Biol 50 (2005) 541-561
12. Tuli J. Evaluated Nuclear Structure Data File. BNL-NCS-51655-Rev87, 1987.
13. 2. Med Phys 30 (2003) 1926-1931
14. Chaudri M.A. Secondary neutron production from patients during therapy with Bremsstrahlung and hadrons: are there potential risks with hadrons; especially C-ions. Radiother Oncol 64 (2002) 220