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Clinical Application of in Vivo Dosimetry System in Radiotherapy of Pelvis  

Kim, Bo-Kyung (Department of Therapeutic Radiology, Seoul National University, College of Medicine)
Chie, Eui-Kyu (Department of Therapeutic Radiology, Seoul National University, College of Medicine)
Huh, Soon-Nyung (Institute of Radiation Medicine, Seoul National University, College of Medicine)
Lee, Hyoung-Koo (Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Medicine, Catholic University)
Ha, Sung-Whan (Department of Therapeutic Radiology, Seoul National University, College of Medicine, Institute of Radiation Medicine, Seoul National University, College of Medicine)
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Journal of Radiation Protection and Research / v.27, no.1, 2002 , pp. 37-49 More about this Journal
Abstract
The accuracy of radiation dose delivery to target volume is one of the most important factors for good local control and less treatment complication. In vivo dosimetry is an essential QA procedure to confirm the radiation dose delivered to the patients. Transmission dose measurement is a useful method of in vivo dosimetry and it's advantages are non-invasiveness, simplicity and no additional efforts needed for dosimetry. In our department, in vivo dosimetry system using measurement of transmission dose was manufactured and algorithms for estimation of transmission dose were developed and tested with phantom in various conditions successfully. This system was applied in clinic to test stability, reproducibility and applicability to daily treatment and the accuracy of the algorithm. Transmission dose measurement was performed over three weeks. To test the reproducibility of this system, X-tay output was measured before daily treatment and then every hour during treatment time in reference condition(field size; $10 cm{\times} 10 cm$, 100 MU). Data of 11 patients whose pelvis were treated more than three times were analyzed. The reproducibility of the dosimetry system was acceptable with variations of measurement during each day and over 3 week period within ${\pm}2.0%$. On anterior- posterior and posterior fields, mean errors were between -5.20% and +2.20% without bone correction and between -0.62% and +3.32% with bone correction. On right and left lateral fields, mean errors were between -10.80% and +3.46% without bone correction and between -0.55% and +3.50% with bone correction. As the results, we could confirm the reproducibility and stability of our dosimetry system and its applicability in daily radiation treatment. We could also find that inhomogeneity correction for bone is essential and the estimated transmission doses are relatively accurate.
Keywords
In vivo dosimetry; Radiation therapy; Transmission dose; Tissue inhomogeneity;
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