Published June 2016 | Version v1
Journal article

SU-F-T-586: Pre-Treatment QA of InCise2 MLC Plans On a Cyberknife-M6 Using the Delta4 System in SBRT

  • 1. Division of Medical Radiation Physics and Department of Radiation Oncology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, and University of Bern (Switzerland)

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Purpose: Performing pre-treatment quality assurance (QA) with the Delta4 system (ScandiDos Inc., Madison, WI) is well established for linac-based radiotherapy. This is not true when using a Cyberknife (Accuray Inc., Sunnyvale, CA) where, typically film-based QA is applied. The goal of this work was to test the feasibility to use the Delta4 system for pre-treatment QA for stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) using a Cyberknife-M6 equipped with the InCise2 multileaf collimator (MLC). Methods: In order to perform measurements without accelerator pulse signal, the Tomotherapy option within the Delta4 software was used. Absolute calibration of the Delta4 phantom was performed using a 10×10 cm2 field shaped by the InCise2 MLC of the Cyberknife-M6. Five fiducials were attached to the Delta4 phantom in order to be able to track the phantom before and during measurements. For eight SBRT treatment plans (two liver, two prostate, one lung, three bone metastases) additional verification plans were recalculated on the Delta4 phantom using MultiPlan. Dicom data was exported from MultiPlan and was adapted in order to be compatible with the Delta4 software. The measured and calculated dose distributions were compared using the gamma analysis of the Delta4 system. Results: All eight SBRT plans were successfully measured with the aid of the Delta4 system. In the mean, 98.0±1.9%, 95.8±4.1% and 88.40±11.4% of measured dose points passed the gamma analysis using a global dose deviation criterion of 3% (100% corresponds to the dose maximum) and a distance-to-agreement criterion of 3 mm, 2 mm and 1 mm, respectively, and a threshold of 20%. Conclusion: Pre-treatment QA of SBRT plans using the Delta4 system on a Cyberknife-M6 is feasible. Measured dose distributions of SBRT plans showed clinically acceptable agreement with the corresponding calculated dose distributions.

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Journal Title
Medical Physics
Journal Volume
43
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
vp.
ISSN
0094-2405
CODEN
MPHYA6

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Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
48097819
Subject category
S60: APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES; S61: RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY;
Descriptors DEI
COMPUTER CODES; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; PHANTOMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS
Descriptors DEC
ACCELERATORS; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; MOCKUP; STRUCTURAL MODELS; TOMOGRAPHY

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(c) 2016 American Association of Physicists in Medicine