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http://dx.doi.org/10.14316/pmp.2014.25.4.242

Discrepancies between Calculated and Delivered Dose Distributions of Respiratory Gated IMRT Fields according to the Target Motion Ranges for Lung and Liver Cancer Patients  

Kim, Youngkuk (Department of Radiation Oncology, Kosin University College of Medicine)
Lim, Sangwook (Department of Radiation Oncology, Kosin University College of Medicine)
Choi, Ji Hoon (Department of Radiation Oncology, Kosin University College of Medicine)
Ma, Sun Young (Department of Radiation Oncology, Kosin University College of Medicine)
Jeung, Tae Sig (Department of Radiation Oncology, Kosin University College of Medicine)
Ro, Tae Ik (Department of Physics, Dong-A University)
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Progress in Medical Physics / v.25, no.4, 2014 , pp. 242-247 More about this Journal
Abstract
To see the discrepancies between the calculated and the delivered dose distribution of IMRT fields for respiratory-induced moving target according to the motion ranges. Four IMRT plans in which there are five fields, for lung and liver patients were selected. The gantry angles were set to $0^{\circ}$ for every field and recalculated using TPS (Eclipse Ver 8.1, Varian Medical Systems, Inc., USA). The ion-chamber array detector (MatriXX, IBA Dosimetry, Germany) was placed on the respiratory simulating platform and made it to move with ranges of 1, 2, and 3 cm, respectively. The IMRT fields were delivered to the detector with 30~70% gating windows. The comparison was performed by gamma index with tolerance of 3 mm and 3%. The average pass rate was 98.63% when there's no motion. When 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 cm motion ranges were simulated, the average pass rate were 98.59%, 97.82%, and 95.84%, respectively. Therefore, ITV margin should be increased or gating windows should be decreased for targets with large motion ranges.
Keywords
Gated radiation therapy; IMRT; Gamma index; Moving phantom;
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