Development of a compact linear accelerator to generate ultrahigh dose rate high-energy X-rays for FLASH radiotherapy applications

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作者
Liu, Focheng [1 ,2 ]
Shi, Jiaru [1 ,2 ]
Zha, Hao [1 ,2 ]
Li, Guohua [3 ]
Li, An [1 ,2 ]
Gu, Weihang [1 ,2 ]
Hu, Ankang [1 ,2 ]
Gao, Qiang [1 ,2 ]
Wang, Haokun [3 ]
Zhang, Liang [3 ]
Liu, Jinsheng [3 ]
Liu, Yaohong [3 ]
Xu, Huijun [4 ]
Tang, Chuanxiang [1 ,2 ]
Chen, Huaibi [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Tsinghua Univ, Dept Engn Phys, Beijing, Peoples R China
[2] Tsinghua Univ, Key Lab Particle & Radiat Imaging, Minist Educ, Beijing, Peoples R China
[3] Nuctech Co Ltd, Dept Linac, Beijing, Peoples R China
[4] Chinese Peoples Liberat Army Gen Hosp, Med Ctr 5, Beijing, Peoples R China
关键词
FLASH radiotherapy; high-energy X-rays; room-temperature linear accelerator; ultrahigh dose rate radiotherapy; RADIATION-THERAPY; IRRADIATION;
D O I
10.1002/mp.16199
中图分类号
R8 [特种医学]; R445 [影像诊断学];
学科分类号
1002 ; 100207 ; 1009 ;
摘要
PurposeIn recent years, the FLASH effect, in which ultrahigh dose rate (UHDR) radiotherapy (RT) can significantly reduce toxicity to normal tissue while maintaining antitumor efficacy, has been verified in many studies and even applied in human clinical cases. This work evaluates whether a room-temperature radio-frequency (RF) linear accelerator (linac) system can produce UHDR high-energy X-rays exceeding a dose rate of 40 Gy/s at a clinical source-surface distance (SSD), exploring the possibility of a compact and economical clinical FLASH RT machine suitable for most hospital treatmentrooms. MethodsA 1.65 m long S-band backward-traveling-wave (BTW) electron linac was developed to generate high-current electron beams, supplied by a commercial klystron-based power source. A tungsten-copper electron-to-photon conversion target for UHDR X-rays was designed and optimized with Monte Carlo (MC) simulations using Geant4 and thermal finite element analysis (FEA) simulations using ANSYS. EBT3 and EBT-XD radiochromic films, which were calibrated with a clinical machine Varian VitalBeam, were used for absolute dose measurements. A PTW ionization chamber detector was used to measure the relative total dose and a plane-parallel ionization chamber detector was used to measure the relative normalized dose of each pulse. ResultsThe BTW linac generated 300-mA-pulse-current 11 MeV electron beams with 29 kW mean beam power, and the conversion target could sustain this high beam power within a maximum irradiation duration of 0.75 s. The mean energy of the produced X-rays was 1.66 MeV in the MC simulation. The measured flat-filter-free (FFF) maximum mean dose rate of the room-temperature linac exceeded 80 Gy/s at an SSD of 50 cm and 45 Gy/s at an SSD of 67.9 cm, both at a 2.1 cm depth of the water phantom. The FFF radiation fields at 50 cm and 67.9 cm SSD at a 2.1 cm depth of the water phantom showed Gaussian-like distributions with 14.3 and 20 cm full-width at half-maximum (FWHM) values, respectively. ConclusionThis work demonstrated the feasibility of UHDR X-rays produced by a room-temperature RF linac, and explored the further optimization of system stability. It shows that a simple and compact UHDR X-ray solution can be facilitated for both FLASH-RT scientific research and clinical applications.
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页码:1680 / 1698
页数:19
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