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Efficiency Study of 2D Diode Array Detector for IMRT Quality Assurance  

Kim, Tae-Ho (Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine)
Oh, Seung-Jong (Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine)
Kim, Min-Joo (Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine)
Jung, Won-Gyun (Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine)
Chung, Jin-Beom (Department of Radiation Oncology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital)
Kim, Jae-Sung (Department of Radiation Oncology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital)
Kim, Si-Yong (Department of Radiation Oncology, Mayo Clinic)
Suh, Tae-Suk (Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine)
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Progress in Medical Physics / v.22, no.2, 2011 , pp. 61-66 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this study, we evaluated the effect of grid size on dose calculation accuracy using 2 head & neck and 2 prostate IMRT cases and based on this study's findings, we also evaluated the efficiency of a 2D diode array detector for IMRT quality assurance. Dose distributions of four IMRT plan data were calculated at four calculation grid sizes (1.25, 2.5, 5, and 10 mm) and the calculated dose distributions were compared with measured dose distributions using 2D diode array detector. Although there was no obvious difference in pass rate of gamma analysis with 3 mm/3% acceptance criteria for the others except 10 mm grid size, we found that the pass rates of 2.5, 5 and 10 mm grid size were decreased 5%, 20% and 31.53% respectively according to the application of the fine acceptance criteria, 3 mm/3%, 2 mm/2% and 1 mm/1%. The calculation time were about 11.5 min, 4.77 min, 2.95 min, and 11.5 min at 1.25, 2.5, 5, and 10 mm, respectively and as the grid size increased to double, the calculation time decreased about one-half. The grid size effect was observed more clearly in the high gradient area than the low gradient area. In conclusion, 2.5 mm grid size is considered acceptable for most IMRT plans but at least in the high gradient area, 1.25 mm grid size is required to accurately predict the dose distribution. These results are exactly same as the precious studies' results and theory. So we confirmed that 2D array diode detector was suitable for the IMRT QA.
Keywords
Calculation grid size; Dose calculation accuracy; Gamma evaluation;
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