COMS eye plaque brachytherapy dosimetry simulations for P103d, I125, and C131s

Medical Physics
Christopher S Melhus, Mark J Rivard

Abstract

Monte Carlo (MC) simulations were performed to estimate brachytherapy dose distributions for Collaborative Ocular Melanoma Study (COMS) eye plaques. Brachytherapy seed models 200, 6711, and CS-1 Rev2 carrying P103d, I125, and C131s radionuclides, respectively, were modeled and benchmarked against previously published values. Calculated dose rate constants ΛMC were 0.684, 0.924, and 1.052 cGy h-1 U-1 (±2.6%, k=1 uncertainty) for models 200, 6711, and CS-1 Rev2, respectively. The seeds were distributed into 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, and 22 mm-diameter COMS eye plaques. Simulations were performed in both heterogeneous and homogeneous environments, where the latter were in-water and the former included the silastic seed carrier insert and gold-alloy plaque. MC-based homogenous central axis dose distributions agreed within 2%±1% (±1 s.d.) to hand-calculated values. For heterogeneous simulations, notable photon attenuation was observed, with dose reduction at 5 mm of 19%, 11%, and 9% for P103d, I125, and C131s, respectively. A depth-dependent correction factor was derived to correct homogenous central-axis dose distributions for plaque component heterogeneities, which were found to be significant at short radial distances.

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