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Effect of Dose Rate and Leakage Correction for Dosimetric Leaf Gap Measurement
W Feng1, A Chu2 , Y Chi3 , J Hu4* , (1) New York Presbyterian Hospital, Tenafly, NJ, (2) Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, (3) Winter Park Cancer Center, Winter Park, FL, (4) Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
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SU-E-T-628 Sunday 3:00PM - 6:00PM Room: Exhibit HallPurpose:
To study the dose rate response of Mapcheck and quantify/correct dose rate/leakage effect on IMRT QA. Evaluate the dose rate/leakage effect on dosimetric leaf gap (DLG) measurement.
Methods:
Varian Truebeam Linac with HD120 MLC was used for all measurement, it is capable to adjust dose rate from 600MU/min to 5MU/min. Fluke Advanced Therapy Doisemter and PTW 30013 Farmer chamber for chamber measurement; SunNuclear Mapcheck2 with 5cm total buildup for diode measurement. DLG was measured with both chamber and diode.
Diode response was measured by varies dose rate, while fixed mapcheck setup and total MU. MLC Leakage was measured with both chamber and diode.
Mapcheck measurement was saved as movie file (mcm file), which include measurement updated every 50mSec. The difference between intervals can be converted to dose and dose rate and leakage response correction can be applied to them.
Results:
DLG measurement results with chamber and diode were showed as follows, the DLG value is 0.36 vs. 0.24mm respectively.
Diode dose rate response drops from 100% at 600MU/min to 95.5% at 5MU/min as follows. MLC Leakage measured with diode is 1.021%, which is 9% smaller than 1.112% from chamber measurement. By apply the dose rate and leakage correction, the residue error reduced 2/3.
Conclusions:
Diode has lower response at lower dose rate, as low as 4.5% for 5MU/min; diode has lower energy response for low energy too, 5% lower for Co-60 than 6MV. It partially explains the leakage difference of 9% between chamber and diode.
Lower DLG with diode is because of the lower response at narrower gap, in Eclipse however DLG need to increase to makeup lower response, which is over correction for chamber though.
Correction can reduce error by 2/3, the rest 1/3 can be corrected by scatter effect, which is under study.
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