Monte Carlo investigation of collimator scatter of proton-therapy beams produced using the passive scattering method

Physics in Medicine and Biology
Uwe TittW D Newhauser

Abstract

As a proton-therapy beam passes through the field-limiting aperture, some of the protons are scattered off the edges of the collimator. The edge-scattered protons can degrade the dose distribution in a patient or phantom, and these effects are difficult to model with analytical methods such as those available in treatment planning systems. The objective of this work was to quantify the dosimetric impact of edge-scattered protons for a representative variety of clinical treatment beams. The dosimetric impact was assessed using Monte Carlo simulations of proton beams from a contemporary treatment facility. The properties of the proton beams were varied, including the penetration range (6.4-28.5 cm), width of the spread-out Bragg peak (SOBP; 2-16 cm), field size (3 x 3 cm(2) to 15 x 15 cm(2)) and air gap, i.e. the distance between the collimator and the phantom (8-48 cm). The simulations revealed that the dosimetric impact of edge-scattered protons increased strongly with increasing range (dose increased by 6-20% with respect to the dose at the center of the spread-out Bragg peak), decreased strongly with increasing field size (dose changed by 2-20%), increased moderately with increasing air gap (dose increased by 2-6%) and increa...Continue Reading

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