(Monday, 7/15/2019) 3:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: Exhibit Hall | Forum 1
Purpose: To investigate the feasibility of patient-onboard portal dose quality assurance (QA) for IMRT plans based on Monte Carlo (MC) simulations.
Methods: We performed MC simulations on a voxelised EPID model (Varian aS1000) using the Geant4-based Architecture for Medicine-Oriented Simulations (GAMOS, version 6.0.0). The EPID positioned under a phantom was irradiated and the deposited dose in each voxel was calculated to acquire a portal image. A 60-pair multileaf collimator (MLC) was modelled in the simulations to form a conformal field. To reproduce the beam information as realistic as possible, the phase-space data above the MLC of Varian Clinac iX provided by IAEA was used.
Results: The percentage depth dose (PDD) and lateral dose profiles were firstly examined and the simulated results showed a good agreement with the measurements. We also compared the portal image of a 10cm x 10cm field and a gamma passing rate of 100% was achieved.
Conclusion: The MC simulation results on phantom suggest that a proper model of linac and EPID detector has been established and it is possible to perform patient-onboard portal dose QA.
Keywords
Monte Carlo, Portal Imaging, Transit Dosimetry
Taxonomy
TH- External beam- photons: portal dosimetry
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