Simulation of Proton and Carbon-12 Ion Beam for Tumor/Cancer Treatment

TL;DR

This paper presents simulations of proton and carbon-12 ion beams in water and soft tissue to evaluate their effectiveness for tumor and cancer treatment, highlighting proton beams' superior energy deposition.

Contribution

The study introduces a simulation framework for proton and carbon-12 ion beams using Geant4, providing insights into their potential for cancer therapy.

Findings

Proton beams show better energy deposition than carbon-12 and gamma beams.

Simulations suggest proton therapy may be more effective for tumor targeting.

Carbon-12 ion beams have different energy deposition profiles.

Abstract

Treating cancer is one of the most challenging task in medical sciences. Only limited types of cancer treatments are available as their study is still ongoing. The earlier therapies like radiotherapy with x-rays, chemotherapy are associated with lot of side-effects. One of the most desirable cancer treatment is using particle beam therapies. These therapies are quite less risky than other types of cancer and tumor treatments. In this paper we present the proton and carbon-12 ion beam simulation that can help in tumor and cancer treatment. We simulated the proton and carbon-12 ion beam in water and soft tissue using geant4 toolkit. The protons are observed to have much better energy deposition in the water and soft tissue than carbon-12 ion and gamma photon beams.