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Development of a Method to Measure the Radiation Isocenter Size of Linear Accelerators and Quantitative Analysis of the Radiation Isocenter Size for Clinac 21EX Linear Accelerator  

Jeon, Ho-Sang (Department of Radiation Oncology, Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital)
Nam, Ji-Ho (Department of Radiation Oncology, Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital)
Park, Dahl (Department of Radiation Oncology, Pusan National University Hospital)
Kim, Yong-Ho (Department of Radiation Oncology, Pusan National University Hospital)
Kim, Won-Taek (Department of Radiation Oncology, Pusan National University School of Medicine)
Kim, Dong-Won (Department of Radiation Oncology, Pusan National University School of Medicine)
Ki, Yong-Kan (Department of Radiation Oncology, Pusan National University Hospital)
Kim, Dong-Hyun (Department of Radiation Oncology, Pusan National University Hospital)
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Progress in Medical Physics / v.22, no.3, 2011 , pp. 131-139 More about this Journal
Abstract
A method to get a size of the radiation isocenter of linear accelerators using star-shot images was presented and a computer program was developed to automate the method. Accuracy of the method was verified. The developed program was used to measure sizes of the radiation isocenters for a Clinac 21EX (Varian, USA) using data of quality assurance (QA) performed from June 2008 to December 2010. To calculated the size of radiation isocenter, positions of two points on each central ray of the star-shot image were found and the equation of the central ray was determined using the positions of two points. Using the equations of central rays the radius of the minimum circle intersecting all the central rays, which is one half of the size of radiation isocenter, was calculated. The program measured x-intercepts and y-intercepts of the central rays within errors of 0.084 mm and sizes of radiation isocenters within 0.053 mm. All the errors were less than the spatial resolution of star-shot images 0.085 mm. The radiation isocenter sizes of Clinac 21EX were $0.33{\pm}0.27mm$, $0.71{\pm}0.36mm$, $0.50{\pm}0.16mm$ for collimator, gantry and couch respectively. During the measurement period all the measured sizes were less than 2.0 mm and within tolerance. The developed program could calculate the size of radiation isocenters and it would be helpful to routine QA.
Keywords
Radiation isocenter; Quality assurance; Linear accelerator;
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