Measurement of dose distributions using film in therapeutic electron beams.

Abstract:

:The feasibility of using film dosimetry data as the input data for patient treatment planning was evaluated. The central-axis depth dose and the off-axis ratios obtained from film measurements in a solid phantom were compared with those of ion-chamber measurements in water. Two techniques were used to generate isodose distributions. The first technique used only the film data, i.e., the central-axis depth dose and the off-axis ratios used for the reconstruction were determined from the film optical density (corrected for film nonlinearity). In the second technique, the central-axis depth dose measured by an ion chamber in a water phantom was combined with the off-axis ratios measured using film in the "solid water" phantom. The resulting isodose distributions from both techniques were compared with the ion-chamber measurements in water for 7-, 12-, and 18-MeV electrons, and the second technique showed better agreement with the ion-chamber measurements than did the first technique. The differences were within a clinically acceptable range.

journal_name

Med Phys

journal_title

Medical physics

authors

Shiu AS,Otte VA,Hogstrom KR

doi

10.1118/1.596409

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1989-11-01 00:00:00

pages

911-5

issue

6

eissn

0094-2405

issn

2473-4209

journal_volume

16

pub_type

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