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A linear energy transfer distributions computation method for inhomogeneous medium by using the water equivalent
Nan Yan1,2, Chao Wu3, Yun Zhou1,2
1Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China.
Abstract:
Dose-averaged linear energy transfer (LET), LETd is widely used in proton therapy. Compared with analytical models, Monte Carlo (MC) simulations are more accurate in obtaining LETd distributions, but they are time-consuming. This study used the 3D LETd distributions of proton beam spots in water by MC simulations as a benchmark data set. Subsequently, by combining the water equivalent ratio of various human tissues, the 3D LETd distributions of clinical cases could be quickly obtained. Our method was applied to a single spot of 160 MeV proton beam in a water-bone phantom and a pelvic case. We also computed the 3D LETd distributions for multiple proton beam spots in the pelvic case and a lung case. The results of our method were compared with the results of MC simulations, demonstrating that our method can rapidly provide 3D LETd distributions of clinical cases with acceptable differences from MC simulations.
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