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Dose Distribution According to the Tissue Composition Using Wedge Filter by Radiochromic Film  

Kim, Yon-Lae (Department of Radiologic Technology, Choonhae College of Health Sciences)
Lee, Jeong-Woo (Department of Radiation Oncology, Konkuk University Hospital)
Park, Byung-Moon (Department of Radiation Oncology, Konkuk University Hospital)
Jung, Jae-Yong (Department of Radiation Oncology, Sanggye Paik Hospital)
Park, Ji-Yeon (Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Catholic University)
Suh, Tae-Suk (Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Catholic University)
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Journal of radiological science and technology / v.35, no.2, 2012 , pp. 157-164 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to analyze the dose distribution when wedge filter is used in the various tissue electron density materials. The dose distribution was assessed that the enhanced dynamic wedge filter and physical wedge filter were used in the solid water phantom, cork phantom, and air cavity. The film dosimetry was suitable simple to measure 2D dose distribution. Therefore, the radiochromic films (Gafchromic EBT2, ISP, NJ, USA) were selected to measure and to analyze the dose distributions. A linear accelerator using 6 MV photon were irradiated to field size of $10{\times}10cm^2$ with 400 MUs. The dose distributions of EBT2 films were analyzed the in-field area and penumbra regions by using dose analysis program. In the dose distributions of wedge field, the dose from a physical wedge was higher than that from a dynamic wedge at the same electron density materials. A dose distributions of wedge type in the solid water phantom and the cork phantom were in agreements with 2%. However, the dose distribution in air cavity showed the large difference with those in the solid water phantom or cork phantom dose distributions. Dose distribution of wedge field in air cavity was not shown the wedge effect. The penumbra width, out of the field of thick and thin, was observed larger from 1 cm to 2 cm at the thick end. The penumbra of physical wedge filter was much larger average 6% than the dynamic wedge filter. If the physical wedge filter is used, the dose was increased to effect the scatter that interacted with photon and physical wedge. In the case of difference in electron like the soft tissue, lung, and air, the transmission, absorption, and scattering were changed in the medium at high energy photon. Therefore, the treatment at the difference electron density should be inhomogeneity correction in treatment planning system.
Keywords
tissue electron density; physical wedge filter; enhanced dynamic wedge filter; radiochromic film; dose distribution;
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