Simultaneous determination of the dose and linear energy transfer (LET) of carbon-ion beams using radiochromic films.

Abstract:

:Radiochromic films are useful as dosimeters in high-precision radiotherapy owing to their high spatial resolution. However, when a particle beam is measured using a radiochromic film, the dose cannot be estimated accurately because the film darkness varies with variations in linear energy transfer (LET). This paper proposes a novel method for estimating the LET and the dose based on the film darkness. In this method, after a high-LET particle beam, such as a carbon-ion beam, was incident on the film, the film was digitized and its net optical density was determined. Further, the non-linearity of the film response curve between the dose and the darkness, depending on LET, was used. Then, calibration curves were created using 290 MeV u-1 mono energetic carbon-ion beams. We used LETs of 20, 50, 100, and 150 keV µm-1 and a physical dose of 2-14 Gy. The calibration curves were approximated for each LET using a quadratic function. The correlations between the coefficients of the quadratic function and the LET were also obtained. To verify the proposed method, the films were irradiated under 12 different conditions corresponding to various depths and doses. Four depths of -2, -5, -10, and -20 mm with respect to the Bragg peak, and three different preset values were used for the film measurements. The films were analyzed in four groups, where each group comprised films irradiated at the same depth. The LETs obtained from the film analysis, ordered from the upstream of the beam, were 20, 41, 56, and 97 keV µm-1, and the doses for the lowest preset value were 3.95, 4.07, 4.03, and 3.99 Gy for the four groups. The LETs obtained from the film analysis increased toward the Bragg peak, and the doses measured in the ionization chamber were almost equal to 4 Gy.

journal_name

Phys Med Biol

authors

Kawashima M,Matsumura A,Souda H,Tashiro M

doi

10.1088/1361-6560/ab8bf3

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2020-06-15 00:00:00

pages

125002

issue

12

eissn

0031-9155

issn

1361-6560

journal_volume

65

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