Marta Kruszyna-Mochalska1,2. 1. Electroradiology Department, University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland. 2. Greater Poland Cancer Centre, Medical Physics Department, Poznan, Poland.
Abstract
AIM: The aim of the work was to catch potential errors with daily EPID measurements of repeatability of the dose distribution during irradiation of IMRT patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In the first stage, measurements were made using an anthropomorphic phantom in which the method of collecting data with an EPID device and the possibility of detecting errors in positioning were developed. Next, for 23 patients, the pelvis (P) and head and neck (H&N) regions, images were collected with an EPID device for each IMRT subfield daily and compared to reference images using the gamma method (DTA 3 mm, DD 3%). Finally, the dependencies between treatment plan parameters, pre-verification results and repeatability of collected images were evaluated. RESULTS: The anthropomorphic phantom study has shown what kind of effects we can expect with EPID measured at potential shifts during radiotherapy. For the clinical case, score results were obtained for individual tumor regions as below: (P) 0.786 ± 1.046, (H&N) 0.720 ± 1.552. For most evaluated cases, score values were below 1%: (P) 75.5% and (H&N) 83.9% of analyzed fields. 95% of all evaluated data was with the score below: (P) 2.86% and (H&N) 3.40%. The relationship between the results of the analysis of daily collected images and the results of pre-verification, field size and irradiation time was shown. CONCLUSIONS: The EPID-based daily verification can provide extra information about day-to-day repeatability of treatment, without additional dose.
AIM: The aim of the work was to catch potential errors with daily EPID measurements of repeatability of the dose distribution during irradiation of IMRT patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In the first stage, measurements were made using an anthropomorphic phantom in which the method of collecting data with an EPID device and the possibility of detecting errors in positioning were developed. Next, for 23 patients, the pelvis (P) and head and neck (H&N) regions, images were collected with an EPID device for each IMRT subfield daily and compared to reference images using the gamma method (DTA 3 mm, DD 3%). Finally, the dependencies between treatment plan parameters, pre-verification results and repeatability of collected images were evaluated. RESULTS: The anthropomorphic phantom study has shown what kind of effects we can expect with EPID measured at potential shifts during radiotherapy. For the clinical case, score results were obtained for individual tumor regions as below: (P) 0.786 ± 1.046, (H&N) 0.720 ± 1.552. For most evaluated cases, score values were below 1%: (P) 75.5% and (H&N) 83.9% of analyzed fields. 95% of all evaluated data was with the score below: (P) 2.86% and (H&N) 3.40%. The relationship between the results of the analysis of daily collected images and the results of pre-verification, field size and irradiation time was shown. CONCLUSIONS: The EPID-based daily verification can provide extra information about day-to-day repeatability of treatment, without additional dose.
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