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Furuta, Takuya; Koba, Yusuke*; Hashimoto, Shintaro; Chang, W.*; Yonai, Shunsuke*; Matsumoto, Shinnosuke*; Ishikawa, Akihisa*; Sato, Tatsuhiko
Physics in Medicine & Biology, 67(14), p.145002_1 - 145002_15, 2022/07
Times Cited Count：2 Percentile：47.19(Engineering, Biomedical)Carbon ion radiotherapy has an advantage over conventional radiotherapy such that its superior dose concentration on the tumor helps to reduce unwanted dose to surrounding normal tissues. Nevertheless, a little dose to normal tissues, which is a potential risk of secondary cancer, is still unavoidable. The Monte Carlo simulation is a good candidate for the tool to assess secondary cancer risk, including the contributions of secondary particles produced by nuclear reactions. We therefore developed a new dose reconstruction system implementing PHITS as the engine. In this system, the PHITS input is automatically created from the DICOM data sets recorded in the treatment planning. The developed system was validated by comparing to experimental dose distribution in water and treatment plan on an anthropomorphic phantom. This system will be used for retrospective studies using the patient data in National Institute for Quantum and Science and Technology.
Ishikawa, Akihisa*; Koba, Yusuke*; Furuta, Takuya; Chang, W.*; Hashimoto, Shintaro; Yonai, Shunsuke*; Matsumoto, Shinnosuke*; Sato, Tatsuhiko
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There found to be a relationship between the dose-averaged linear energy transfer LETd and local tumor control in carbon-ion radiotherapy (CIRT). However, only physical dose and biological dose are registered in the past treatment records of CIRT in QST hospital and LETd can not be deduced directly. There is a method to estimate LETd based on RBE-LETd-fitted function but some problems such as non-singularity at the end point of carbon ions are known. On the other hand, we propose a method to reproduce the CIRT by reconstructing the beam transport geometry based on the treatment planning data and conduct Monte Carlo simulation. The LETd can be also computed directly. We therefore compared LETd obtained by Monte Carlo simulation with estimated LETd using the treatment planning data. We found that underestimation around the end point of carbon ions but the influence was local and thus the LETd estimates are valid for the purpose computing in organ scale.
Ishikawa, Akihisa; Watanabe, Kenichi*; Yoshihashi, Sachiko*; Uritani, Akira*; Tanaka, Hiroki*; Sakurai, Yoshinori*; Masuda, Akihiko*
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Ishikawa, Akihisa
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