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Treatment plans were designed for three patients with liver, head, and prostate cancers for this study. A homogeneous magnetic field perpendicular to the proton beam direction was assumed throughout. <jats:italic>Main results.<\/jats:italic> In conventional proton therapy (without a magnetic field), high LET<jats:sub>d<\/jats:sub> values are concentrated at the distal fall-off region of proton beam. When a magnetic field is applied, these high LET<jats:sub>d<\/jats:sub> regions are rotated along the beam deflection direction. In the prostate case with two opposing beams, the magnetic field preserved these high LET<jats:sub>d<\/jats:sub> regions by reducing the averaging effect, thereby limiting their dilution. This preservation effect became more pronounced with increasing magnetic field strength. <jats:italic>Significance.<\/jats:italic> In MRI-guided proton therapy, strategies to address LET<jats:sub>d<\/jats:sub> distribution changes caused by the magnetic field are considered desirable, particularly in high magnetic field environments.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1088\/1361-6560\/adf60a","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,7,30]],"date-time":"2025-07-30T22:51:59Z","timestamp":1753915919000},"page":"165005","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1088\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Preliminary assessment of proton linear energy transfer distribution in patients with MRI-guided proton therapy: a simulation study"],"prefix":"10.1088","volume":"70","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9218-3152","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Ye","family":"Chen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Masaki","family":"Konno","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Naoki","family":"Saito","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Seishin","family":"Takao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0002-4044-8291","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Naoki","family":"Miyamoto","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kohei","family":"Yokokawa","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5276-3665","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Takayuki","family":"Hashimoto","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hidefumi","family":"Aoyama","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Taeko","family":"Matsuura","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"266","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,8,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"pmbadf60abib1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"250","DOI":"10.1016\/S0168-9002(03)01368-8","article-title":"Geant4\u2014a simulation toolkit","volume":"506","author":"Agostinelli","year":"2003","journal-title":"Nucl. 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