Publication date: January–February 2018
Source:Reports of Practical Oncology & Radiotherapy, Volume 23, Issue 1
Author(s): Taylan Tuğrul
AimIn this study, at different fields, energies and gantry angles, treatment couch and rails dose absorption ratio and treatment couch effect on surface and build-up region doses were examined.BackgroundIt is assumed that radiation attenuation is minimal because the carbon fiber couches have low density and it is not generally accounted for during treatment planning. Consequently, it leads to a major dosimetric mistake.Materials and methodsSolid water phantom was used for relative dose measurement. The measurements were done using a Farmer ion chamber with 0.6cc volume and a parallel plane ion chamber starting from surface with 1mm depth intervals at 10×10cm2 field, SSD 100cm. Measurements were taken for situations where the beams intersect the couch and couch rails.ResultsDose absorption ratio of carbon fiber couch obtained at gantry angle of 180° was 1.52%, 0.69%, 0.33% and 0.25% at different field sizes for 6MV. For 15MV, this ratio was 0.95%, 0.27%, 0.20% and 0.05%. The absorption ratio is between 3.4% and 1.22% when the beams intersect with couch rails. The couch effect increased surface dose from 14% to 70% for 6MV and from 11.34% to 53.03% for 15MV.ConclusionsThe results showed that the carbon fiber couch increased surface dose during posterior irradiation. Therefore, the skin-sparing effect of the high energy beams was decreased. If the effect of couch is not considered, it may cause significant differences at dose which reaches the patient and may cause tissue problems such as erythema.
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Πέμπτη 14 Δεκεμβρίου 2017
Absorption ratio of treatment couch and effect on surface and build-up region doses
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