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Comparative Analysis of Surface Dose Measurements Using MOSFET Detector and Dose Predicted by Eclipse - AAA with Varying Dose Calculation Grid Size
R Badkul*, S Nejaiman , D Pokhrel , H Jiang , P Kumar , University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
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SU-E-T-196 (Sunday, July 12, 2015) 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM Room: Exhibit Hall
Purpose:Skin dose can be the limiting factor and fairly common reason to interrupt the treatment, especially for treating head-and-neck with Intensity-modulated-radiation-therapy(IMRT)or Volumetrically-modulated-arc-therapy(VMAT) and breast with tangentially-directed-beams. Aim of this study was to investigate accuracy of near-surface dose predicted by Eclipse treatment-planning-system(TPS) using Anisotropic-Analytic-Algorithm(AAA)with varying calculation grid-size and comparing with metal-oxide-semiconductor-field-effect-transistors(MOSFETs)measurements for a range of clinical-conditions(open-field,dynamic-wedge,physical-wedge,IMRT,VMAT).
Methods:QUASAR™-Body-Phantom was used in this study with oval curved-surfaces to mimic breast, chest wall and head-and-neck sites.A CT-scan was obtained with five radio-opaque markers(ROM) placed on the surface of phantom to mimic the range of incident angles for measurements and dose prediction using 2mm slice thickness.At each ROM, small structure(1mmx2mm) were contoured to obtain mean-doses from TPS.Calculations were performed for open-field,dynamic-wedge,physical-wedge,IMRT and VMAT using Varian-21EX,6&15MV photons using twogrid-sizes:2.5mm and 1mm.Calibration checks were performed to ensure that MOSFETs response were within ±5%.Surface-doses were measured at five locations and compared with TPS calculations.
Results:For 6MV: 2.5mm grid-size,mean calculated doses(MCD)were higher by 10%(±7.6),10%(±7.6),20%(±8.5),40%(±7.5),30%(±6.9) and for 1mm grid-size MCD were higher by 0%(±5.7),0%(±4.2),0%(±5.5),1.2%(±5.0),1.1%(±7.8) for open-field,dynamic-wedge,physical-wedge,IMRT,VMAT respectively.For 15MV: 2.5mm grid-size,MCD were higher by 30%(±14.6),30%(±14.6),30%(±14.0),40%(±11.0),30%(±3.5)and for 1mm grid-size MCD were higher by 10%(±10.6),10%(±9.8),10%(±8.0),30%(±7.8),10%(±3.8)for open-field, dynamic-wedge, physical-wedge, IMRT, VMAT respectively.For 6MV, 86% and 56% of all measured values agreed better than ±20% for 1mm and 2.5mm grid-sizes respectively. For 18MV, 56% and 18% of all measured-values agreed better than ±20% for 1mm and 2.5mm grid-sizes respectively.
Conclusion: Reliable Skin-dose calculations by TPS can be very difficult due to steep dose-gradient and inaccurate beam-modelling in buildup region.Our results showed that Eclipse over-estimates surface-dose.Impact of grid-size is also significant,surface-dose increased up to 40% from 1mm to 2.5mm,however, 1mm calculated-values closely agrees with measurements. Due to large uncertnities in skin-dose predictions from TPS,outmost caution must be exercised when skin dose is evaluated,a sufficiently smaller grid-size(1mm)can improve the accuracy and MOSFETs can be used for verification.
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