Dose homogeneity specification for reference dosimetry of nonstandard fields.

Abstract:

PURPOSE:To investigate the sensitivity of the plan-class specific correction factor to dose distributions in composite nonstandard field dosimetry. METHODS:A cylindrical water-filled PMMA phantom was constructed at the center of which reference absorbed dose could be measured. Ten different TomoTherapy(®)-based IMRT fields were created on the CT images of the phantom. The dose distribution for each IMRT field was estimated at the position of a radiation detector or ionization chamber. The dose in each IMRT field normalized to that in a reference 10 × 10 cm(2) field was measured using a PTW micro liquid ion chamber. Based on the new dosimetry formalism, a plan-class specific correction factor k(Q(pcsr),Q) (f(pcsr),f(ref)) for each field was measured for two Farmer-type chambers, Exradin A12 and NE2571, as well as for a smaller Exradin A1SL chamber. The dependence of the measured correction factor on parameters characterizing dose distribution was analyzed. RESULTS:Uncertainty on the plan-class specific correction factor measurement was in the range of 0.3%-0.5% and 0.3%-0.8% for the Farmer-type chambers and the Exradin A1SL, respectively. When the heterogeneity of the central region of the target volume was less than 5%, the correction factor did not differ from unity by more than 0.7% for the three air-filled ionization chambers. For more heterogeneous dose deliveries, the correction factor differed from unity by up to 2.4% for the Farmer-type chambers. For the Exradin A1SL, the correction factor was closer to unity due to the reduced effect of dose gradients, while it was highly variable in different IMRT fields because of a more significant impact of positioning uncertainties on the response of this chamber. CONCLUSIONS:The authors have shown that a plan-class specific correction factor can be specified as a function of plan evaluation parameters especially for Farmer-type chambers. This work provides a recipe based on quantifying dose distribution to accurately select air-filled ionization chamber correction factors for nonstandard fields.

journal_name

Med Phys

journal_title

Medical physics

authors

Chung E,Soisson E,Seuntjens J

doi

10.1118/1.3669487

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2012-01-01 00:00:00

pages

407-14

issue

1

eissn

0094-2405

issn

2473-4209

journal_volume

39

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