PMID: 9434979Jan 22, 1998Paper

A dual source photon beam model used in convolution/superposition dose calculations for clinical megavoltage x-ray beams

Medical Physics
H H LiuE C McCullough

Abstract

A realistic model of photon beams generated by clinical linear accelerators has been incorporated in a convolution/superposition method to compute dose distributions in photon treatment fields. In this beam model, a primary photon source represents photons directly from the target, and an extra-focal photon source represents scattered photons from the primary collimator and the flattening filter. Monte Carlo simulation was used to study clinical linear accelerators producing photon beams. From the output of the Monte Carlo simulation, the fluence and spectral distributions of each photon component, as well as the geometrical characteristics of each photon source with respect to its distance to the isocenter and its source distribution, were analyzed. These quantities were used to reproduce realistic photon distributions in treatment fields, and thus to compute dose distributions using the convolution method. Our results showed that compared to the primary photon fluence, the extra-focal photon fluence from the primary collimator and the flattening filter was 11%-16% at the isocenter, among which 70% was contributed by the flattening filter. The variation of extra-focal photons in different treatment fields was predicted accurat...Continue Reading

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