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Comparison of skin dose calculated by the dose tracking system (DTS) with a beam angular correction factor and that calculated by Monte-Carlo.

ABSTRACT: Skin dose is dependent on the incident beam angle and corrections are needed for accurate estimation of the risk of deterministic effects of the skin. Angular-correction factors (ACF) were calculated and incorporated into our skin-dose-tracking system (DTS) and the results compared to Monte-Carlo simulations for a neuro-interventional procedure. To obtain the ACF's, EGSnrc Monte-Carlo (MC) software was used to calculate the dose averaged over 0.5, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 mm depth into the entrance surface of a water phantom at the center of the field as a function of incident beam to skin angle from 90-10 degrees for beam field sizes from 5-15 cm and for beam energies from 60-120 kVp. These values were normalized to the incident primary dose to obtain the ACF. The angle of incidence at each mesh vertex in the beam on the surface of the DTS patient graphic was calculated as the complement of the angle between the normal vector and the vector of the intersecting ray from the tube focal spot; skin dose at that vertex was calculated using the corresponding ACF. The skin-dose values with angular correction were compared to those calculated using MC with a matching voxelized phantom. The results show the ACF decreases with decreasing incident angle and skin thickness, and increases with increasing field size and kVp. Good agreement was obtained between the skin dose calculated by the angular-corrected DTS and MC, while use of the ACF allows the real-time performance of the DTS to be maintained.

SUBMITTER: Sun SH

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8330613 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Comparison of skin dose calculated by the dose tracking system (DTS) with a beam angular correction factor and that calculated by Monte-Carlo.

Sun Sheng-Hsuan SH Rudin Stephen S Bednarek Daniel R DR

Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering 20210215

Skin dose is dependent on the incident beam angle and corrections are needed for accurate estimation of the risk of deterministic effects of the skin. Angular-correction factors (ACF) were calculated and incorporated into our skin-dose-tracking system (DTS) and the results compared to Monte-Carlo simulations for a neuro-interventional procedure. To obtain the ACF's, EGSnrc Monte-Carlo (MC) software was used to calculate the dose averaged over 0.5, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 mm depth into the entrance surf ...[more]

PMID: 34349338

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