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Proton therapy enables to deliver highly conformed dose distributions owing to the characteristic Bragg peak and the finite range of protons. However, during proton therapy, secondary neutrons are created, which can travel long distances and deposit dose in out-of-field volumes. This out-of-field absorbed dose needs to be considered for radiation-induced secondary cancers, which are particularly relevant in the case of pediatric treatments. Unfortunately, no method exists in clinics for the computation of the out-of-field dose distributions in proton therapy. To help overcome this limitation, a computational tool has been developed based on the Monte Carlo code TOPAS. The purpose of this work is to evaluate the accuracy of this tool in comparison to experimental data obtained from an anthropomorphic phantom irradiation. An anthropomorphic phantom of a 5-year-old child (ATOM, CIRS) was irradiated for a brain tumor treatment in an IBA Proteus Plus facility using a pencil beam dedicated nozzle. The treatment consisted of three pencil beam scanning fields employing a lucite range shifter. Proton energies ranged from 100 to 165 MeV. A median dose of 50.4 Gy(RBE) with 1.8 Gy(RBE) per fraction was prescribed to the initial planning target volume (PTV), which was located in the cerebellum. Thermoluminescent detectors (TLDs), namely, Li-7-enriched LiF : Mg, Ti (MTS-7) type, were used to detect gamma radiation, which is produced by nuclear reactions, and secondary as well as recoil protons created out-of-field by secondary neutrons. Li-6-enriched LiF : Mg,Cu,P (MCP-6) was combined with Li-7-enriched MCP-7 to measure thermal neutrons. TLDs were calibrated in Co-60 and reported on absorbed dose in water per target dose (μGy/Gy) as well as thermal neutron dose equivalent per target dose (μSv/Gy). Additionally, bubble detectors for personal neutron dosimetry (BD-PND) were used for measuring neutrons (>50 keV), which were calibrated in a Cf-252 neutron beam to report on neutron dose equivalent dose data. The Monte Carlo code TOPAS (version 3.6) was run using a phase-space file containing 1010 histories reaching an average standard statistical uncertainty of less than 0.2% (coverage factor k = 1) on all voxels scoring more than 50% of the maximum dose. The primary beam was modeled following a Fermi–Eyges description of the spot envelope fitted to measurements. For the Monte Carlo simulation, the chemical composition of the tissues represented in ATOM was employed. The dose was tallied as dose-to-water, and data were normalized to the target dose (physical dose) to report on absorbed doses per target dose (mSv/Gy) or neutron dose equivalent per target dose (μSv/Gy), while also an estimate of the total organ dose was provided for a target dose of 50.4 Gy(RBE). Out-of-field doses showed absorbed doses that were 5 to 6 orders of magnitude lower than the target dose. The discrepancy between TLD data and the corresponding scored values in the Monte Carlo calculations involving proton and gamma contributions was on average 18%. The comparison between the neutron equivalent doses between the Monte Carlo simulation and the measured neutron doses was on average 8%. Organ dose calculations revealed the highest dose for the thyroid, which was 120 mSv, while other organ doses ranged from 18 mSv in the lungs to 0.6 mSv in the testes. The proposed computational method for routine calculation of the out-of-the-field dose in proton therapy produces results that are compatible with the experimental data and allow to calculate out-of-field organ doses during proton therapy.
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Cancer Research, bubble detector, Brachytherapy Dose Calculation, Bragg peak, Medizin, Nuclear physics, BEAM, Medizinische Fakultät, proton therapy, Proton Therapy, Anthropomorphic pediatric phantom, 1306 Cancer Research, RC254-282, RISK, anthropomorphic pediatric phantom, ddc:610, Radiotherapy Physics and Technology, Radiation, Physics, out-of-field dosimetry, Statistics, Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens, Imaging phantom, DOSIMETRY, Proton therapy, Scintillation Detector Technology, Monte Carlo method, Radiation therapy, Oncology, Isocenter, Physical Sciences, Medicine, 2730 Oncology, Proton, Radiology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, RADIOTHERAPY, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, 530 Physics, TLD, 610, 10192 Physics Institute, Neutron, 530, Medizinische Fakultät » Universitätsklinikum Essen » Westdeutsches Protonentherapiezentrum (WPE), Medizinische Fakultät » Universitätsklinikum Essen » Westdeutsches Tumorzentrum Essen (WTZ), 3211 Oncology and carcinogenesis, Particle Therapy for Cancer Treatment, Health Sciences, DETECTORS, Bubble detector, FOS: Mathematics, proton therapy -- anthropomorphic pediatric phantom -- Monte Carlo simulation -- out-of-field dosimetry -- TLD -- bubble detector, SPECTRA, 1112 Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Radiation treatment planning, TOOLKIT, Monte Carlo simulation, Out-of-field dosimetry, [SDV.IB] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Bioengineering, Science & Technology, 3202 Clinical sciences, Optics, MODEL, Pencil-beam scanning, Physics and Astronomy, Nuclear medicine, Beam (structure), Irradiation, ScholarlyArticle, Mathematics, ddc: ddc:610
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