A phenomenological relative biological effectiveness approach for proton therapy based on an improved description of the mixed radiation field

Proton therapy treatment planning systems (TPSs) are based on the assumption of a constant relative biological effectiveness (RBE) of 1.1 without taking into account the found in vitro experimental variations of the RBE as a function of tissue type, linear energy transfer (LET) and dose. The phenomenological RBE models available in literature are based on the dose-averaged LET (LET D ) as an indicator of the physical properties of the proton radiation field. The LET D values are typically calculated taking into account primary and secondary protons, neglecting the biological effect of heavier secondaries. In this work, we have introduced a phenomenological RBE approach which considers the biological effect of primary protons, and of secondary protons, deuterons, tritons ( Z   =  1) and He fragments ( 3 He and 4 He, Z   =  2). The calculation framework, coupled with a Monte Carlo (MC) code, has been success...

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