Nagake Yuya, Yasui Keisuke, Ooe Hiromu, Ichihara Masaya, Iwase Kaito, Toshito Toshiyuki, Hayashi Naoki
Graduate School of Health Sciences, Fujita Health University, Toyoake, Japan.
School of Medical Sciences, Fujita Health University, Toyoake, Japan.
Radiol Phys Technol. 2024 Mar;17(1):280-287. doi: 10.1007/s12194-024-00777-y. Epub 2024 Jan 23.
The reference dose for clinical proton beam therapy is based on ionization chamber dosimetry. However, data on uncertainties in proton dosimetry are lacking, and multifaceted studies are required. Monte Carlo simulations are useful tools for calculating ionization chamber dosimetry in radiation fields and are sensitive to the transport algorithm parameters when particles are transported in a heterogeneous region. We aimed to evaluate the proton transport algorithm of the Particle and Heavy Ion Transport Code System (PHITS) using the Fano test. The response of the ionization chamber and beam quality correction factors were calculated using the same parameters as those in the Fano test and compared with those of other Monte Carlo codes for verification. The geometry of the Fano test consisted of a cylindrical gas-filled cavity sandwiched between two cylindrical walls. was calculated as the ratio of the absorbed dose in water to the dose in the cavity in the chamber. We compared the calculated using PHITS with that of a previous study, which was calculated using other Monte Carlo codes (Geant4, FULKA, and PENH) under similar conditions. The flight mesh, a parameter for charged particle transport, passed the Fano test within 0.15%. This was shown to be sufficiently accurate compared with that observed in previous studies. The calculated using PHITS were 1.116 ± 0.002 and 1.124 ± 0.003 for NACP-02 and PTW-30013, respectively, and the were 0.981 ± 0.008 and 1.027 ± 0.008, respectively, at 150 MeV. Our results indicate that PHITS can calculate the and with high precision.
临床质子束治疗的参考剂量基于电离室剂量测定法。然而,质子剂量测定不确定性的数据尚缺,需要进行多方面研究。蒙特卡罗模拟是计算辐射场中电离室剂量测定的有用工具,当粒子在非均匀区域传输时,对传输算法参数敏感。我们旨在使用法诺测试评估粒子与重离子传输代码系统(PHITS)的质子传输算法。使用与法诺测试相同的参数计算电离室响应和射束质量校正因子,并与其他蒙特卡罗代码的结果进行比较以作验证。法诺测试的几何结构由夹在两个圆柱形壁之间的圆柱形充气腔组成。计算为水中吸收剂量与电离室腔中剂量的比值。我们将使用PHITS计算的与先前研究的进行比较,先前研究是在类似条件下使用其他蒙特卡罗代码(Geant4、FULKA和PENH)计算的。带电粒子传输参数飞行网格在0.15%范围内通过了法诺测试。与先前研究中观察到的相比,这显示出足够的准确性。在150 MeV时,使用PHITS计算的NACP - 02和PTW - 30013的分别为1.116±0.002和1.124±0.003,分别为0.981±0.008和1.027±0.008。我们的结果表明,PHITS可以高精度计算和。