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Record W4406353683 · doi:10.1002/mp.17561

A library of proton lineal energy spectra spanning the full range of clinically relevant energies

2025· article· en· W4406353683 on OpenAlexfundno aff
Joseph M. DeCunha, Marta Missiaggia, Mark Newpower, Erik Tranéus, Chiara La Tessa, Radhe Mohan

Bibliographic record

VenueMedical Physics · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicRadiation Therapy and Dosimetry
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaUniversity of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
KeywordsBinSpectral lineEnergy (signal processing)Monte Carlo methodPhysicsRange (aeronautics)ProtonComputational physicsProton therapyBeam (structure)Nuclear physicsComputer scienceOpticsMathematicsAlgorithmStatisticsMaterials science

Abstract

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PURPOSE: ) based models. However, the development of microdosimetric spectrum-based biological effects models is hampered by the extreme computational difficulty of calculating microdosimetric spectra. Given a precomputed library of lineal energy spectra for monoenergetic protons, a weighted summation can be performed which yields the lineal energy spectrum of an arbitrary polyenergetic beam. Using this approach, lineal energy spectra can be rapidly calculated on a voxel-by-voxel level. ACQUISITION AND VALIDATION METHODS: Monoenergetic proton tracks generated using Geant4-DNA were imported into SuperTrack, a GPU-accelerated software for calculation of microdosimetric spectra. Libraries of proton lineal energy spectra which span the energy range of 0-300 MeV were computed. The libraries were validated by comparison to Monte Carlo calculations in the literature, as well as lineal energy spectra measured experimentally with a tissue equivalent proportional counter. DATA FORMAT AND USAGE NOTES: The lineal energy libraries have been made available in three data formats, two are plain-text, .csv and .les, and one binary encoded, root. Library files include the lineal energy bin abscissa in keV per micron and the unnormalized number of counts occurring within that bin. A computational technique for summation of the library files to yield the lineal energy of a polyenergetic beam is described in this work. POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS: The lineal energy libraries can be used to rapidly determine the lineal energy spectra at the location of cell cultures for in-vitro experiments and in each voxel of a treatment plan for in-vivo outcome modelling. These libraries have already been incorporated into RayStation 2023B-IonPG for lineal energy spectra calculation and we anticipate they will be incorporated into further dose calculation engines and Monte Carlo toolkits.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.027
Threshold uncertainty score0.089

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0020.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0270.012

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.293
Teacher spread0.280 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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