Feasibility of a multigroup Boltzmann–Fokker–Planck solution for electron beam dose calculations

Naceur, Ahmed; Hébert, Alain; Romano, Paul; Forget, Benoit; Chilian, Cornelia; Carrier, Jean-François

doi:10.1038/s41598-023-27376-y

Feasibility of a multigroup Boltzmann–Fokker–Planck solution for electron beam dose calculations

Journal Article · Tue Jan 24 00:00:00 EST 2023 · Scientific Reports

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-27376-y· OSTI ID:2203853

Naceur, Ahmed ^[1]; Hébert, Alain ^[1]; Romano, Paul ^[2]; Forget, Benoit ^[3]; Chilian, Cornelia ^[1]; Carrier, Jean-François ^[4]

Ecole Polytechnique, Montreal, QC (Canada)
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
Univ. of Montreal, QC (Canada)

Legacy nuclear-reactor Boltzmann solvers start clinical deployment as an alternative to Monte Carlo (MC) codes and Fermi–Eyges semiemprical models in radiation oncology treatment planning. Today’s certified clinical solvers are limited to photon beams. In this paper, ELECTR, a state-of-the-art multigroup electron cross sections generation module in NJOY is presented and validated against Lockwood’s calorimetric measurements, EGS-nrc and GEANT-4 for 1–20 MeV unidirectional electron beams. The nuclear-reactor DRAGON-5 solver is upgraded to access the library and solve the Boltzmann–Fokker–Planck (BFP) equation. A variety of heterogeneous radiotherapy and radiosurgery phantom configurations were used for validation purpose. Case studies include a thorax benchmark, that of a typical breast Intra-Operative Radiotherapy and a high-heterogeneity patient-like benchmark. For all beams, 100% of the water voxels satisfied the American Association of Physicists in Medicine accuracy criterion for a BFP-MC dose error below 2%. At least, 97.0% of adipose, muscle, bone, lung, tumor and breast voxels satisfied the 2% criterion. The average BFP-MC relative error was about 0.56% for all voxels, beams and materials combined. By irradiating homogeneous slabs from Z = 1 (hydrogen) to Z = 99 (einsteinium), we reported performance and defects of the CEPXS mode [US. Sandia National Lab., SAND-89-1685] in ELECTR for the entire periodic table. For all Lockwood’s benchmarks, NJOY-DRAGON dose predictions are within the experimental data precision for 98% of voxels.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC); USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 2203853

Journal Information:: Scientific Reports, Journal Name: Scientific Reports Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 13; ISSN 2045-2322

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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