Improvement of the hybrid approach between Monte Carlo simulation and analytical function for calculating microdosimetric probability densities in macroscopic matter

巨視的な体系内におけるマイクロドジメトリ量を計算するモンテカルロ法と解析関数を組み合わせたハイブリット手法の改良

佐藤 達彦   ; 松谷 悠佑*  ; 小川 達彦   ; 甲斐 健師   ; 平田 悠歩   ; 津田 修一  ; Parisi, A.*

Sato, Tatsuhiko; Matsuya, Yusuke*; Ogawa, Tatsuhiko; Kai, Takeshi; Hirata, Yuho; Tsuda, Shuichi; Parisi, A.*

PHITSには、マイクロドジメトリ機能と呼ばれるモンテカルロ法と解析関数を組み合わせて巨視的な空間内における微視的な領域の線量分布を計算する機能が備わっている。本論文では、そのマイクロドジメトリ機能を同じくPHITSに組み込まれた最新の飛跡構造解析モードを使って改良した結果について報告する。

In this study, we improved the microdosimetric function implemented in PHITS using the latest track-structure simulation codes. The improved function is capable of calculating the probability densities of not only the conventional microdosimetric quantities such as lineal energy but also the numbers of ionization events occurred in a target site, the so-called ionization cluster size distribution, for arbitrary site diameters from 3 nm to 1 um. As a new application of the improved function, we calculated the relative biological effectiveness of the single-strand break and double-strand break yields for proton irradiations using the updated PHITS coupled with the simplified DNA damage estimation model, and confirmed its equivalence in accuracy and its superiority in computational time compared to our previously proposed method based on the track-structure simulation.