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MATEC Web of Conferences
Volume 65, 2016
2016 The International Conference on Nanomaterial, Semiconductor and Composite Materials (ICNSCM 2016)
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| Article Number | 02002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Nanomaterial, Carbon material Synthesis and Properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/20166502002 | |
| Published online | 06 July 2016 | |
Geant4 Simulation Study of Dose Distribution and Energy Straggling for Proton and Carbon Ion Beams in Water
Beijing Key Laboratory of Passive Safety Technology for Nuclear Energy, School of Nuclear Science and Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China
Dose distribution and energy straggling for proton and carbon ion beams in water are investigated by using a hadrontherapy model based on the Geant4 toolkit. By gridding water phantom in N×N×N voxels along X, Y and Z axes, irradiation dose distribution in all the voxels is calculated. Results indicate that carbon ion beams have more advantages than proton beams. Proton beams have bigger width of the Bragg peak and broader lateral dose distribution than carbon ion beams for the same position of Bragg peaks. Carbon ion has a higher local ionization density and produces more secondary electrons than proton, so carbon ion beams can achieve a higher value of relative biological effectiveness.
Key words: Monte Carlo simulation / dose distribution / geant4 / Bragg peak
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