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Design, fabrication, and validation of a polymethyl methacrylate head phantom for dosimetric verification of cranial radiotherapy treatment plans
- Source :
- Journal of Medical Physics, Vol 45, Iss 2, Pp 66-70 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2020.
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Abstract
- Purpose: The present study aims to design and fabricate a novel, versatile, and cost-effective Polymethyl Methacrylate (PMMA) head phantom for the dosimetric pretreatment verification of radiotherapy (RT) treatment plans. Materials and Methods: The head phantom designing involves slice-wise modeling of an adult head using PMMA. The phantom has provisions to hold detectors such as ionization chambers of different sizes, Gafchromic films, gel dosimeter, and optically stimulated luminescence dosimeter. For the point dose verification purpose, 15 volumetric modulated arc therapy patient plans were selected, and doses were measured using a CC13 ionization chamber. The percentage gamma passing rate was calculated for acceptance criteria 3%/3 mm and 2%/2 mm using OmniPro I'mRT film QA software, and Gafchromic EBT3 films were used for 2D planar dose verification. Results: Treatment planning system calculated, and the measured point doses showed a percentage deviation ranged from 0.26 to 1.92. The planar dose fluence measurements, for set acceptance criteria of 3%/3 mm and 2%/2 mm, percentages of points having gamma value
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09716203 and 19983913
- Volume :
- 45
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Journal of Medical Physics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.b677804e2b8f41a3ae3f1fdfe02e7563
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.4103/jmp.JMP_21_20