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BiBTeX citation export for THPOMS026: Monte Carlo Simulation of Electron Beam in Phantom Water for Radiotherapy Application

@inproceedings{apiwattanakul:ipac2022-thpoms026,
  author       = {P. Apiwattanakul and P. Lithanatudom and P. Nimmanpipug and C. Phueng-ngern and S. Rimjaem and J. Saisut},
  title        = {{Monte Carlo Simulation of Electron Beam in Phantom Water for Radiotherapy Application}},
  booktitle    = {Proc. IPAC'22},
% booktitle    = {Proc. 13th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC'22)},
  pages        = {3011--3013},
  eid          = {THPOMS026},
  language     = {english},
  keywords     = {electron, simulation, radiation, photon, linac},
  venue        = {Bangkok, Thailand},
  series       = {International Particle Accelerator Conference},
  number       = {13},
  publisher    = {JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland},
  month        = {07},
  year         = {2022},
  issn         = {2673-5490},
  isbn         = {978-3-95450-227-1},
  doi          = {10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-THPOMS026},
  url          = {https://jacow.org/ipac2022/papers/thpoms026.pdf},
  abstract     = {{Radiotherapy (RT) is an effective treatment that can control the growth of cancer cells. There is a hypothesis suggests that secondary electrons with an energy of a few eV produced from RT play an important role on cancer’s DNA strand break. In this study, the Monte Carlo simulation of electron beam irradiation in phantom water is performed to investigate the production of low-energy electrons. Electron beams produced from an radio-frequency linear accelerator (RF linac) are used in this study. The accelerator can generate the electron beam with adjustable energy of up to 4 MeV and adjustable repetition rate of up to 200 Hz. With these properties, the electron dose can be varied. We used ASTRA software to simulate the electron beam dynamics in the accelerator and GEANT4 toolkit for studying interactions of electrons in water. The energy of electrons decreases from MeV scale to keV-eV scale as they travel in the water. From simulations, the dose distribution and depth in phantom water were obtained for the electron dose of 1, 3, 5, 10, 25, and 50 Gy. Further study on effect of low-energy electron beam with these dose values on cancer DNAs will be performed with GEANT4-DNA simulation.}},
}