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Performance Evaluation of Radiochromic Films and Dosimetry CheckTM for Patient-specific QA in Helical Tomotherapy  

Park, Su Yeon (Department of Radiation Oncology, Samsung Comprehensive Cancer Center, Samsung Medical Center)
Chae, Moon Ki (Department of Radiation Oncology, Samsung Comprehensive Cancer Center, Samsung Medical Center)
Lim, Jun Teak (Department of Radiation Oncology, Samsung Comprehensive Cancer Center, Samsung Medical Center)
Kwon, Dong Yeol (Department of Radiation Oncology, Samsung Comprehensive Cancer Center, Samsung Medical Center)
Kim, Hak Joon (Department of Radiation Oncology, Seoul Metropolitan Government Seoul National University Boramae Medical Center)
Chung, Eun Ah (Department of Radiation Oncology, Samsung Comprehensive Cancer Center, Samsung Medical Center)
Kim, Jong Sik (Department of Radiation Oncology, Samsung Comprehensive Cancer Center, Samsung Medical Center)
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The Journal of Korean Society for Radiation Therapy / v.32, no., 2020 , pp. 93-109 More about this Journal
Abstract
Purpose: The radiochromic film (Gafchromic EBT3, Ashland Advanced Materials, USA) and 3-dimensional analysis system dosimetry checkTM (DC, MathResolutions, USA) were evaluated for patient-specific quality assurance (QA) of helical tomotherapy. Materials and Methods: Depending on the tumors' positions, three types of targets, which are the abdominal tumor (130.6㎤), retroperitoneal tumor (849.0㎤), and the whole abdominal metastasis tumor (3131.0㎤) applied to the humanoid phantom (Anderson Rando Phantom, USA). We established a total of 12 comparative treatment plans by the four geometric conditions of the beam irradiation, which are the different field widths (FW) of 2.5-cm, 5.0-cm, and pitches of 0.287, 0.43. Ionization measurements (1D) with EBT3 by inserting the cheese phantom (2D) were compared to DC measurements of the 3D dose reconstruction on CT images from beam fluence log information. For the clinical feasibility evaluation of the DC, dose reconstruction has been performed using the same cheese phantom with the EBT3 method. Recalculated dose distributions revealed the dose error information during the actual irradiation on the same CT images quantitatively compared to the treatment plan. The Thread effect, which might appear in the Helical Tomotherapy, was analyzed by ripple amplitude (%). We also performed gamma index analysis (DD: 3mm/ DTA: 3%, pass threshold limit: 95%) for pattern check of the dose distribution. Results: Ripple amplitude measurement resulted in the highest average of 23.1% in the peritoneum tumor. In the radiochromic film analysis, the absolute dose was on average 0.9±0.4%, and gamma index analysis was on average 96.4±2.2% (Passing rate: >95%), which could be limited to the large target sizes such as the whole abdominal metastasis tumor. In the DC analysis with the humanoid phantom for FW of 5.0-cm, the three regions' average was 91.8±6.4% in the 2D and 3D plan. The three planes (axial, coronal, and sagittal) and dose profile could be analyzed with the entire peritoneum tumor and the whole abdominal metastasis target, with planned dose distributions. The dose errors based on the dose-volume histogram in the DC evaluations increased depending on FW and pitch. Conclusion: The DC method could implement a dose error analysis on the 3D patient image data by the measured beam fluence log information only without any dosimetry tools for patient-specific quality assurance. Also, there may be no limit to apply for the tumor location and size; therefore, the DC could be useful in patient-specific QAl during the treatment of Helical Tomotherapy of large and irregular tumors.
Keywords
Helical Tomotherapy; patient-specific QA; thread effect; radiochromic film dosimetry $Check^{TM}$; Dosimetry Check;
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