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  • Medical Physics
  • Radiation Oncology
  • Computational Biology

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  • Proton therapy offers precise dose delivery, but optimizing biological effect remains a challenge.
  • Incorporating biological models into treatment planning can enhance therapeutic outcomes.
  • Linear energy transfer (LET) is a key factor influencing biological effectiveness.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a rapid method for integrating a dose-averaged linear energy transfer (LET)-based biological effect model into scanned proton dose optimization.
  • To implement a novel beam delivery strategy to increase LET within the target, thereby enhancing biological effect using a relative biological effectiveness (RBE) model.

Main Methods:

  • Generated proton beam dose and LET distributions using Geant4 Monte Carlo simulations.
  • Developed 1D dose optimization algorithms in Python, incorporating the McNamara RBE model.
  • Utilized radiobiological parameters for lung cancer H460 cells with 137Cs reference photons.

Main Results:

  • Achieved high-accuracy dose optimization with delivered dose within ±1.0% of the prescribed dose.
  • Demonstrated RBE enhancement within the target using the LET-painting technique.
  • Observed a higher center RBE (1.23 ± 0.01) with LET-painting compared to traditional methods (1.16 ± 0.01).

Conclusions:

  • Successfully developed an easy-to-implement method for biological dose optimization using Python and the McNamara RBE model.
  • Increased target LET enhances RBE, as predicted by the RBE model.
  • Further radiobiological experiments are needed to validate the RBE model predictions.