Proton Therapy Simulations by GATE in the Treatment of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)

Abstract

Lung cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths. Recently, radiotherapy is being used extensively for the treatment of patients suffering from cancer. Proton therapy is a very suitable form of radiation therapy for tumors that occur in the vicinity of critical tissues such as lung, due to the unique characteristics of the protons used in the treatment. In this study, a geometry model with lung, heart, tumor and bone structures in a water phantom is modeled with the Monte Carlo simulation tool vGATE, version of 7.2. With this simulation, the accumulated dose are calculated for each organ.

Comparison of Proton and Photon Radiotheraphy for Left-sided Breast Cancer via Dosimetric Calculations

“…It is a C++ program-based code library developed by CERN, which has an extensive physics library containing tools that can simulate the passage of all kinds of particles through matter and their interaction. [6] It is through macros that we can shape the simulation. In the GATE program, operations such as visualization, applying geometry, identification of physical variable, random number, simulation running hours , or number of participles are created by writing specific codes in Macro files.…”