On the insensitivity of single field planar dosimetry to IMRT inaccuracies

Medical Physics
Jon J Kruse

Abstract

To report on the sensitivity of single field planar measurements in identifying IMRT plans with poor calculational accuracy. Three IMRT plans for head and neck cancer were subjected to extensive quality assurance. The plans were recalculated on a cylindrical phantom and between eight and 18 low gradient points were measured in each plan with an ion chamber. Every point measured in these plans agreed to within 4% of the dose predicted by the planning system and the plans were judged acceptable for clinical use. Each plan was then reoptimized with aggressive dose constraints so that the new treatment fields were more highly modulated than the ones from the original plans. Very complex fields can be calculated less accurately and ion chamber measurements of these plans in the cylindrical phantom confirmed significant dosimetric errors--Several of the measured points in each plan differed from the calculated dose by more than 4%, with a maximum single deviation of 10.6%. These three plans were judged unacceptable for clinical use. All six plans (three acceptable, three unacceptable) were then analyzed with two means of individual field planar dosimetry: Portal imaging with an electronic portal imaging device (EPID) and an ion chamb...Continue Reading

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