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Quantitative analysis of brass compensators for commissioning of the Pinnacle planning system for IMRT.


ABSTRACT: Brass compensators for beam modulation present an alternative method for IMRT treatment planning to traditional dynamic leaf modulation. In this work, we present a detailed method to commission the Pinnacle treatment planning system for IMRT using brass compensators. Beam attenuation from various brass thicknesses were measured using an ion chamber, as well as a MapCHECK device, for a representative seven-field IMRT plan. We show that Pinnacle's parameters for compensators can be optimized to match the measured results while still maintaining the original open-beam model. Only Pinnacle's modified scatter factor and brass density value were adjusted. Beam attenuation in several brass slabs were optimized by minimizing a χ(2) function of measured and modeled data for several depths in solid water. Using MapCHECK, Pinnacle's parameters were optimized by minimizing the number of points that fail during a gamma analysis of seven fields in a typical IMRT plan. Our results show that Pinnacle's 10X beam is best modeled using a brass density of 7.8 g/cm(3) and a modified scatter factor of 0.1 cm(-1).

SUBMITTER: Gates LL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5690995 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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