Proton Linear Energy Transfer measurement using Emulsion Cloud Chamber
- Authors
- Shin, Jae-ik; Park, Seyjoon; Kim, Haksoo; Kim, Meyoung; Jeong, Chiyoung; Cho, Sungkoo; Lim, Young Kyung; Shin, Dongho; Lee, Se Byeong; Morishima, Kunihiro; Naganawa, Naotaka; Sato, Osamu; Kwak, Jungwon; Kim, Sung Hyun; Cho, Jung Sook; Ahn, Jung Keun; Kim, Ji Hyun; Yoon, Chun Sil; Incerti, Sebastien
- Issue Date
- 15-4월-2015
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
- Keywords
- Proton therapy; Bragg curve; Linear Energy Transfer (LET); Nuclear emulsion; Volume Pulse Height (VPH)
- Citation
- NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION B-BEAM INTERACTIONS WITH MATERIALS AND ATOMS, v.349, pp.201 - 208
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION B-BEAM INTERACTIONS WITH MATERIALS AND ATOMS
- Volume
- 349
- Start Page
- 201
- End Page
- 208
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/93831
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.nimb.2014.12.083
- ISSN
- 0168-583X
- Abstract
- This study proposes to determine the correlation between the Volume Pulse Height (VPH) measured by nuclear emulsion and Linear Energy Transfer (LET) calculated by Monte Carlo simulation based on Geant4. The nuclear emulsion was irradiated at the National Cancer Center (NCC) with a therapeutic proton beam and was installed at 5.2 m distance from the beam nozzle structure with various thicknesses of water-equivalent material (PMMA) blocks to position with specific positions along the Bragg curve, After the beam exposure and development of the emulsion films, the films were scanned by S-UTS developed in Nagoya University. The proton tracks in the scanned films were reconstructed using the 'NETSCAN' method. Through this procedure, the VPH can be derived from each reconstructed proton track at each position along the Bragg curve. The VPH value indicates the magnitude of energy loss in proton track. By comparison with the simulation results obtained using Geant4, we found the correlation between the LET calculated by Monte Carlo simulation and the VPH measured by the nuclear emulsion. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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