The carbon beams show more advantages on the biological properties compared with proton beams in radiation therapy. The carbon beam shows high linear energy transfer (LET) to medium and it increases the relative biological effectiveness (RBE). To design spread-out Bragg peak (SOBP) of biological dose using carbon beam, a practical method was purposed by using the linear-quadratic (LQ) model and Geant4 based Monte Carlo simulation code. The various Bragg peak profiles and LET was calculated for each slice at the target region. To generate appropriate biological SOBP, a set of weighting factor, which is a power function in terms of energy step, was applied to the obtained each physical dose. The designed biological SOBP showed 1.34 % of uniformity.
@article{arxiv.1507.04453,
title = {Practical biological spread-out Bragg peak design of carbon beam},
author = {Chang Hyeuk Kim and Hwa-Ryun Lee and Seduk Chang and Hong Suk Jang and Jeong Hwan Kim and Dong Wook Park and Won Taek Hwang and Tea-Keun Yang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.04453},
year = {2015}
}