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http://dx.doi.org/10.14316/pmp.2015.26.2.87

Dosimetric Analysis of Respiratory-Gated RapidArc with Varying Gating Window Times  

Yoon, Mee Sun (Department of Radiation Oncology, Chonnam National University Medical School)
Kim, Yong-Hyeob (Department of Radiation Oncology, Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital)
Jeong, Jae-Uk (Department of Radiation Oncology, Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital)
Nam, Taek-Keun (Department of Radiation Oncology, Chonnam National University Medical School)
Ahn, Sung-Ja (Department of Radiation Oncology, Chonnam National University Medical School)
Chung, Woong-Ki (Department of Radiation Oncology, Chonnam National University Medical School)
Song, Ju-Young (Department of Radiation Oncology, Chonnam National University Medical School)
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Progress in Medical Physics / v.26, no.2, 2015 , pp. 87-92 More about this Journal
Abstract
The gated RapidArc may produce a dosimetric error due to the stop-and-go motion of heavy gantry which can misalign the gantry restart position and reduce the accuracy of important factors in RapidArc delivery such as MLC movement and gantry speed. In this study, the effect of stop-and-go motion in gated RapidArc was analyzed with varying gating window time, which determines the total number of stop-and-go motions. Total 10 RapidArc plans for treatment of liver cancer were prepared. The RPM gating system and the moving phantom were used to set up the accurate gating window time. Two different delivery quality assurance (DQA) plans were created for each RapidArc plan. One is the portal dosimetry plan and the other is MapCHECK2 plan. The respiratory cycle was set to 4 sec and DQA plans were delivered with three different gating conditions: no gating, 1-sec gating window, and 2-sec gating window. The error between calculated dose and measured dose was evaluated based on the pass rate calculated using the gamma evaluation method with 3%/3 mm criteria. The average pass rates in the portal dosimetry plans were $98.72{\pm}0.82%$, $94.91{\pm}1.64%$, and $98.23{\pm}0.97%$ for no gating, 1-sec gating, and 2-sec gating, respectively. The average pass rates in MapCHECK2 plans were $97.80{\pm}0.91%$, $95.38{\pm}1.31%$, and $97.50{\pm}0.96%$ for no gating, 1-sec gating, and 2-sec gating, respectively. We verified that the dosimetric accuracy of gated RapidArc increases as gating window time increases and efforts should be made to increase gating window time during the RapidArc treatment process.
Keywords
Gated RapidArc; Portal dosimetry; MapCHECK2; Gamma evaluation;
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