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Title: Validation of Geant4 fragmentation for Heavy Ion Therapy

Abstract

12C ion therapy has had growing interest in recent years for its excellent dose conformity. However at therapeutic energies, which can be as high as 400 MeV/u, carbon ions produce secondary fragments. For an incident 400 MeV/u 12C ion beam, ~70% of the beam will undergo fragmentation before the Bragg Peak. The dosimetric and radiobiological impact of these fragments must be accurately characterised, as it can result in increasing the risk of secondary cancer for the patient as well as altering the relative biological effectiveness. Here, this work investigates the accuracy of three different nuclear fragmentation models available in the Monte Carlo Toolkit Geant4, the Binary Intranuclear Cascade (BIC), the Quantum Molecular Dynamics (QMD) and the Liege Intranuclear Cascade (INCL++). The models were benchmarked against experimental data for a pristine 400 MeV/u 12C beam incident upon a water phantom, including fragment yield, angular and energy distribution. For fragment yields the three alternative models agreed between ~5 and ~35% with experimental measurements, the QMD using the “Frag” option gave the best agreement for lighter fragments but had reduced agreement for larger fragments. For angular distributions INCL++ was seen to provide the best agreement among the models for all elements with themore » exception of Hydrogen, while BIC and QMD was seen to produce broader distributions compared to experiment. BIC and QMD performed similar to one another for kinetic energy distributions while INCL++ suffered from producing lower energy distributions compared to the other models and experiment.« less

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 [1];  [2];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [5];  [6];  [7];  [2];  [8];  [1];  [1]
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  1. Univ. of Wollongong (Australia)
  2. INFN, Catania (Italy)
  3. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva (Switzerland)
  4. CNRS/IN2P3 (France); Univ. Bordeaux (France)
  5. European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva (Switzerland); Tomsk State Univ., Tomsk (Russia)
  6. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  7. French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), Saclay (France)
  8. INFN, Catania (Italy); National Physical Lab., Middlesex (United Kingdom)
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Research Org.:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1408204
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-76SF00515
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 869; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0168-9002
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; Geant4; Benchmarking; Heavy ion therapy

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Bolst, David, Cirrone, Giuseppe A. P., Cuttone, Giacomo, Folger, Gunter, Incerti, Sebastien, Ivanchenko, Vladimir, Koi, Tatsumi, Mancusi, Davide, Pandola, Luciano, Romano, Francesco, Rosenfeld, Anatoly B., and Guatelli, Susanna. Validation of Geant4 fragmentation for Heavy Ion Therapy. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1016/j.nima.2017.06.046.
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Bolst, David, Cirrone, Giuseppe A. P., Cuttone, Giacomo, Folger, Gunter, Incerti, Sebastien, Ivanchenko, Vladimir, Koi, Tatsumi, Mancusi, Davide, Pandola, Luciano, Romano, Francesco, Rosenfeld, Anatoly B., & Guatelli, Susanna. Validation of Geant4 fragmentation for Heavy Ion Therapy. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2017.06.046
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Bolst, David, Cirrone, Giuseppe A. P., Cuttone, Giacomo, Folger, Gunter, Incerti, Sebastien, Ivanchenko, Vladimir, Koi, Tatsumi, Mancusi, Davide, Pandola, Luciano, Romano, Francesco, Rosenfeld, Anatoly B., and Guatelli, Susanna. Wed . "Validation of Geant4 fragmentation for Heavy Ion Therapy". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2017.06.046. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1408204.
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@article{osti_1408204,
title = {Validation of Geant4 fragmentation for Heavy Ion Therapy},
author = {Bolst, David and Cirrone, Giuseppe A. P. and Cuttone, Giacomo and Folger, Gunter and Incerti, Sebastien and Ivanchenko, Vladimir and Koi, Tatsumi and Mancusi, Davide and Pandola, Luciano and Romano, Francesco and Rosenfeld, Anatoly B. and Guatelli, Susanna},
abstractNote = {12C ion therapy has had growing interest in recent years for its excellent dose conformity. However at therapeutic energies, which can be as high as 400 MeV/u, carbon ions produce secondary fragments. For an incident 400 MeV/u 12C ion beam, ~70% of the beam will undergo fragmentation before the Bragg Peak. The dosimetric and radiobiological impact of these fragments must be accurately characterised, as it can result in increasing the risk of secondary cancer for the patient as well as altering the relative biological effectiveness. Here, this work investigates the accuracy of three different nuclear fragmentation models available in the Monte Carlo Toolkit Geant4, the Binary Intranuclear Cascade (BIC), the Quantum Molecular Dynamics (QMD) and the Liege Intranuclear Cascade (INCL++). The models were benchmarked against experimental data for a pristine 400 MeV/u 12C beam incident upon a water phantom, including fragment yield, angular and energy distribution. For fragment yields the three alternative models agreed between ~5 and ~35% with experimental measurements, the QMD using the “Frag” option gave the best agreement for lighter fragments but had reduced agreement for larger fragments. For angular distributions INCL++ was seen to provide the best agreement among the models for all elements with the exception of Hydrogen, while BIC and QMD was seen to produce broader distributions compared to experiment. BIC and QMD performed similar to one another for kinetic energy distributions while INCL++ suffered from producing lower energy distributions compared to the other models and experiment.},
doi = {10.1016/j.nima.2017.06.046},
journal = {Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment},
number = C,
volume = 869,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jul 12 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Wed Jul 12 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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