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From Russia with Love - Monte Carlo Particle Transport Code SHIELD-HIT12A

Niels Bassler, PhD, <[email protected]>

Department of Physics and AstronomyAarhus University, Denmark

Department of Experimental Clinical OncologyAarhus University Hospital, Denmark

David C. Hansen, Armin Lühr, Nikolai Sobolevsky

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Outline of this talk

• About SHIELD-HIT and derivatives• Current status of the -A fork of SHIELD-HIT• Ongoing projects in Aarhus

• Question ahead of talk to the audience:– What feature would YOU like to see in SHIELD-HIT?


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MC Treatment Planning Publications


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Common MC Codes

• Photons & Electrons only• EGS4, EGSnrc, BEAMnrc (National Research Council of Canada)

• Penelope (Facultat de Fisica (ECM), Universitat de Barcelona) • MCNP (including neutrons)

• Photons & Electrons + Ions• FLUKA (CERN)

• Geant4 (CERN)

• PHITS (Japan Atomic Energy Agency)

• MCNPX (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

• Ions only:• SHIELD(-HIT) (Institute for Nuclear Research RAS)


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Common MC Codes in Use

Number of publications

Year

ISI Web of Knowledge


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Common MC Codes in Use


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SHIELD-HIT

SHIELD-HIT (Heavy Ion Therapy) was designed for precise simulation of interaction of therapeutic beams of protons and ions with biological tissue


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• Compare MC codes with cars:http://willworkforscience.blogspot.com/

→ “Monte Carlo Programs in Particle Therapy Research”

A FLUKA car A Geant4 car A SHIELD-HIT car

Why SHIELD-HIT?

http://willworkforscience.blogspot.com/


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SHIELD-HIT12A


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SHIELD-HIT

SHIELD-HIT (Heavy Ion Therapy) was designed for precise simulation of interaction of therapeutic beams of protons and ions with biological tissue

SHIELD-HITxxA is a fork with several improvements!


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SHIELD-HIT12A goals

• Black box approach• Simple to use

– easy install– no programming knowledge required– multi platform support

• Less restrictive license (commercial use allowed)• Add missing features from other MC codes (simple LET

scoring, better beam models, simple TRiP integration)• Make it fast and robust


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Vaporware

• “Vaporware is a term in the computer industry that describes a product, typically computer hardware or software, that is announced to the general public but is never actually released nor officially cancelled.”

• Surfaced vaporware:– Duke Nukem Forever– Diabolo III– Warcraft III– ...


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SHIELD-HIT12A – vaporware?

• As of today: a demo version can be downloaded• Still in beta, expect grave bugs• Demo version: hardcoded seed and statistics

• Download it here:

– http://neptun.phys.au.dk/~bassler/SHIELD_HIT/DEMO

– Or google SHIELD-HIT12A, there is a link from our project page.

http://neptun.phys.au.dk/~bassler/SHIELD_HIT/DEMO


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History of SHIELD - Overview

• SHIELD – developed at JINR 1967-72– RSICC No.CCC-667– Transport of nucleons and pions up to 30 GeV– Continued at Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian

Academy of Sciences (INR)– Rewritten 1989-90, Transport of nucleons, antinucleons,

pions and kaons up to 1 TeV– Fortran 77

• SHIELD-HI– 1997: Transport of ions with arbitrary A and Z

• SHIELD-HIT– 2001: Heavy Ion Therapy (INR, DKFZ, Karolinska)


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The SHIELD-(((HI)T)12A) Family

SHIELD-HIT08

SHIELD-HIT10

SHIELD-HIT10A

SHIELD-HIT12A

SHIELD-HITSHIELD-HI

SHIELD

SHIELD SHIELD-HI

SHIELD-HIT13A

1972

2001

2008

2010

2012

> 2012


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Under the hood

•Dubna cascade model (Toneev et al)•Quark-gluon string model (Amlein et al)•Coalescence model (Toneev et al)•Precompound emission of nucleons and lightest nuclei (Gudima et al)•Equilibrium deexcitation of residual nucleus:

–Fermi break-up of light nuclei (Botvina et al)–Evaporation/Fission competition (Botvina et al and Adeev et al)–Multifragmentation of excited nuclei (Botvina et al)

•Neutron transport LOENT 28 group ABBN (Abagayan et al.)

• Bethe and Lindhard-Scharff stopping power or external tables


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• Usability• User's manual (yes, in English!)• Arbitrary scoring grids (Cartesian or cylindrical)• Scoring of particle energy - spectra files in TRiP format (.spc)• Scoring of depth-dose distributions in TRiP format (.ddd)• Plenty of new estimators (dose and track av. LET, β, ...)• Interface to SimpleGEO for geometry visualization• Read external Spread Out Bragg Peak files (.rst from TRiP)• Ripple filter (GSI type)• Binaries in Linux and Windows (32 and 64 bit)

• Computation speed• Parallelization• New random number generator (RANLUX->RANSHI)

• Nuclear models• Fine tuning of inelastic cross sections following experimental data (GSI)• Fine tuning of model parameters in Fermi-Breakup model.

What is new in SHIELD-HIT10A

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SHIELD-HIT10A, Carbon ion depth-dose curve

Experimental data: Herrmann et al. Med. Phys. 2011, Vol. 38, Pages 1859 – 1866Hansen, DC et al., 2012, Int. J. Rad. Biol. 88, p. 195-199

absolute dose


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SHIELD-HIT10A, C-12 fragmentation

Experimental data: Haettner et al, 2006Hansen, DC et al., 2012, Phys. Med. Biol. 57, p. 2393


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SHIELD-HIT10A - Scoring


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• Usability• New detector: Alanine response• Scoring by zones (parallelizable)• New format of input files

– Simpler and extensible without breaking compability– includes ICRU database with 279 default materials

• New beam model– Divergence– Beam focus (postive and negative)– Arbitrary beam directions– More default beam shapes– RIFI operation mode

• Got rid of atab.dat and tabnuc.dat• Many bug-fixes (solved the fluence in vacuum bug)

• Even more extensive manual

• Computation speed• New Vavilov straggling routine (5-6 times faster than old routine)

WHAT IS NEW IN SHIELD-HIT12A


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Old school USB memory stick

Formatted F77 style input...


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Example: Material definition SHIELD-HIT

BEFORE: for022.dat – (fixed format)


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Example: Material definition SHIELD-HIT12A

AFTER: mat.dat – (free format)


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What SHIELD-HIT12A doesn't do

• No graphical user interface (but there is a hack for geometry visualization)

• Not capable of handling voxel geometry (CT-scans)

• No photon/electron transport

• No Russian manual


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Plans for future release(s)

• Usability• Voxel geometry• IAEA phsp import-export (in progress, sort of)• Space related scorers and beam models

• Computation speed• GPU support

• Models• Photon / electron transport• Magnetic fields• Update cross sections of ions heavier than C-12 (in progress -

workshop 26th of January 2013 :-)• Update antiproton cross sections (in progress)• Better stopping powers (heavier targets, heavier ions, higher velocities)

(space applications) (in progress)• Radiobiology scorer


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PyTRiPhelper functions

SHIELD-HIT12A Interfaces

SHIELD-HIT12A

libdEdxelectronic stopping power tables

MCNPneutron sources

TRiPtreatment planning

Particlespectrafiles(.spc)

Depth dosekernels(.ddd)

Rasterscan files(.rst)

SimpleGEOFor 3D visualization

of geometry

FLUKAinput files(.inp)


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VAVILOV STRAGGLING

(applied astronomy)


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New VAVILOV straggling function

• Decided to reimplement VAVILOV straggling due to GPL and copyright issues

• Original version was taken from GEANT 3.21, and could have caused trouble if SHIELD-HIT was released


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SHIELD-HIT v1 (2001)


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Vavilov straggling

● VAVINV() by Bjarne Thomsen (astronomer in emeritus)

● 5-6 times faster than Geant 3.21 version (Rotondi & Montana)

Results: speedup of code 30-40 % for a typical C-12 calculation with nuclear fragmentation switched on.


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Ripple Filter


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SHIELD-HIT10A – Ripple Filter


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RiFi-induced inhomogeneities

• RIFI -> various degree of lateral straggling of the ions

• inhomogeneous dose distribution close to RIFI

• project by MSc student Toke Printz in collaboration with Uli Weber at Marburg


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• Detailed model of Marburg beamline implemented, including beam focus

• maximum dose inhomogeneity seen where lateral scatter is comparable to the RiFI-period of 0.15 cm.

• At Bragg peak, no effect seen (due to scatter and straggling)

• → can one make thicker RIFIs to save E-steps? Check DVHs for plans, using SH12A ↔ TRiP interface

RIFI dose ripple for inc. target distances


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“Nuclear reaction models very important for particle therapy”

When? Where? How much?


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Nuclear Models in Particle Therapy

Nuclear models were changed in SH08 → SH10. What does this mean?

• Influence on1) Dose distribution2) Dosimetry

a) Stopping Power Ratios - b) Fluence Correction Factors3) Radiobiology4) PET isotope production for imaging5) Secondary neutron generation (secondary cancer)

● RELATIVE tests:A) Reference: nuclear models as they are now in SHIELD-HIT10AB) Turn off nuclear reactions entirelyC) Increase and decrease inelastic cross section by 20 %D) Fermi-Breakup model: change free volumes Vf/V0 and Vfc/V0

Lühr et al. 2012, Phys. Med. Biol. 57, 5169


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3) Effect on Radiobiology (LEM I, via TRiP)


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CONCLUSION

Impact of nuclear models on particle therapy:

1) Dose distribution20 % change in nucl. Cross sections -> 10 % change in SOBP

2) Dosimetry:a) Stopping power ratios: NOb) Fluence correction factors: A little (< 5%)

3) Radiobiology: No. (mostly attributed to dose shift from 1 -> non constant end point)

Here we only looked at inelastic cross sections, and Fermi-Breakup, due to newly available experimental data.


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Nuclear Models in Particle Therapy

Nuclear models were changed in SH08 → SH10. What does this mean?

• Influence on1) Dose distribution2) Dosimetry

a) Stopping Power Ratios - b) Fluence Correction Factors3) Radiobiology4) PET isotope production for imaging <--- NEW5) Secondary neutron generation (secondary cancer)

● RELATIVE tests:A) Reference: nuclear models as they are now in SHIELD-HIT10AB) Turn off nuclear reactions entirelyC) Increase and decrease inelastic cross section by 20 %D) Fermi-Breakup model: change free volumes Vf/V0 and Vfc/V0

Lühr et al. 2012, Phys. Med. Biol. 57, 5169


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4) PET Isotope distribution

Lühr et al., submitted. 2012


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B) NO nuclear reactions --> NO PET isotopes C) +/-20% change inelastic cross sections: 20-40% change positron yieldsD) Fermi-Breakup model adjustment: mixed responsefewfrag: increase less than 10%, except 10C (50%) manyfrag: all yields decrease → improves agreement


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Conclusions

• SHIELD-HIT12A– Fast and simple to use– Many features for research in particle therapy– Buggy demo version free to download (beta)

• Outlook– Voxel geometry– Photon/electron transport– [your idea here]


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HIT Wednesday seminar, as seen from Aarhusduring Armin's talk in November last year: Jakob, Toke, Niels, Jørgen, Ricky

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