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Dose Evaluation at The Build Up Region Using by Wedge Filter  

Kim, Yon-Lae (Department of Radiologic Technology, Choonhae College of Health Sciences)
Moon, Seong-Kong (Department of Radiologic Technology, Choonhae College of Health Sciences)
Suh, Tae-Suk (Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Catholic University)
Chung, Jin-Beom (Department of Radiation Oncology, Seoul National Univ. Bundang Hospital)
Kim, Jin-Young (Department of Radiation Oncology, Inje Univ. Haeundae Paik Hospital)
Lee, Jeong-Woo (Department of Radiation Oncology, Konkuk University Hospital)
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Journal of radiological science and technology / v.37, no.4, 2014 , pp. 341-348 More about this Journal
Abstract
Wedge filter could use to increase the dose distribution at the hot dose regions. We evaluated dose discrepancy at surface and build region in the infield and outfield that Metal Wedge (MW) and Enhance Dynamic Wedge (EDW) were interact with photon. In this paper, we used Gafchromic EBT3 film that had excellent spatial resolution, composed the water equivalent materials and changed the optical density without development. The set up conditions of linear accelerator were fixed 6 MV photon, 100 cm SSD, $10{\times}10cm^2$ field size and were irradiated 400 cGy at Dmax. The dose distribution and absorbed dose were evaluated when we compared the open field with $15^{\circ}$, $30^{\circ}$, $45^{\circ}$ metal wedge and enhanced dynamic wedge. A $15^{\circ}$ metal wedge could increase the surface and build up region dose than using a $15^{\circ}$ enhanced dynamic wedge. A $30^{\circ}$ metal wedge could decrease the surface and build up region dose than using a $30^{\circ}$ enhanced dynamic wedge. A $45^{\circ}$ metal wedge could decrease by large deviation the surface and build up region dose than using a $15^{\circ}$ enhanced dynamic wedge. The dose of penumbra region at outfield were increased on the thick side but were decreased on the thin side. It could be decrease the surface dose and build up region dose, if the metal wedge filters were properly used to make a good dose distribution and not closed the distance of surface.
Keywords
metal wedge; enhance dynamic wedge; Gafchromic EBT3 film; surface dose; build up region dose;
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