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The design and evaluation of a two-dimensional dose verification system for intensity modulated radiotherapy.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The design and evaluation of a two-dimensional dose verification system for intensity modulated radiotherapy./
Author:	Childress, Nathan Lewis.
Description:	191 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-08, Section: B, page: 4093.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-08B.
Subject:	Physics, Radiation. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3141843
ISBN:	0496889178

The design and evaluation of a two-dimensional dose verification system for intensity modulated radiotherapy.
Childress, Nathan Lewis.

The design and evaluation of a two-dimensional dose verification system for intensity modulated radiotherapy. - 191 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-08, Section: B, page: 4093.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, 2004.

The usage of intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) treatments necessitates a significant amount of patient-specific quality assurance (QA). This research has investigated the precision and accuracy of Kodak EDR2 film measurements for IMRT verifications, the use of comparisons between 2D dose calculations and measurements to improve treatment plan beam models, and the dosimetric impact of delivery errors. New measurement techniques and software were developed and used clinically at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. The software implemented two new dose comparison parameters, the 2D normalized agreement test (NAT) and the scalar NAT index. A single-film calibration technique using multileaf collimator (MLC) delivery was developed. EDR2 film's optical density response was found to be sensitive to several factors: radiation time, length of time between exposure and processing, and phantom material. Precision of EDR2 film measurements was found to be better than 1%. For IMRT verification, EDR2 film measurements agreed with ion chamber results to 2%/2mm accuracy for single-beam fluence map verifications and to 5%/2mm for transverse plane measurements of complete plan dose distributions. The same system was used to quantitatively optimize the radiation field offset and MLC transmission beam modeling parameters for Varian MLCs. While scalar dose comparison metrics can work well for optimization purposes, the influence of external parameters on the dose discrepancies must be minimized. The ability of 2D verifications to detect delivery errors was tested with simulated data. The dosimetric characteristics of delivery errors were compared to patient-specific clinical IMRT verifications. For the clinical verifications, the NAT index and percent of pixels failing the gamma index were exponentially distributed and dependent upon the measurement phantom but not the treatment site. Delivery errors affecting all beams in the treatment plan were flagged by the NAT index, although delivery errors impacting only one beam could not be differentiated from routine clinical verification discrepancies. Clinical use of this system will flag outliers, allow physicists to examine their causes, and perhaps improve the level of agreement between radiation dose distribution measurements and calculations. The principles used to design and evaluate this system are extensible to future multidimensional dose measurements and comparisons.

ISBN: 0496889178Subjects--Topical Terms:

1019212
Physics, Radiation.

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