Modelling 6 MV photon beams of a stereotactic radiosurgery system for Monte Carlo treatment planning

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1689-1704

  Deng, Jun ^a   Guerrero, Thomas ^b   Ma, C M ^c   Nath, Ravinder ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETERS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; PHOTONS; SCATTERING; SURGERY;

PHOTON BEAMS; RADIOSURGERY;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COLLIMATOR; DOSE CALCULATION; ELECTRON; GEOMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOSURGERY; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 2542481005     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/9/007     Document Type: Article

References (60)

1. Adler J R, Chang S D, Murphy M J, Doty J, Geis P and Hancock S L 1997 The Cyberknife: a frameless robotic system for radiosurgery Stereotact. Funct. Neurosurg. 69 124-8
2. Ahnesjö A 1992 Application of the convolution method for calculation of output factors for therapy photon beams Med. Phys. 19 295-301
3. Ahnesjö A 1994 Analytic modelling of photon scatter from flattening filters in photon therapy beams Med. Phys. 21 1227-35
4. Ahnesjö A 1995 Collimator scatter in photon therapy beams Med. Phys. 22 267-78
5. Andreo P 1991 Monte Carlo technique in medical physics Phys. Med. Biol. 36 861-920
6. Bielajew A F and Rogers D WO 1997 PRESTA: the parameter reduced electron-step transport algorithm for electron Monte Carlo transport Nucl. Instrum. Methods B 18 165-81
7. Chaney E L and Cullip T J 1994 A Monte Carlo study of accelerator head scatter Med. Phys. 21 1383-90
8. Chang S D, Main W, Martin D P, Gibbs I C and Heilbrun M P 2003 An analysis of the accuracy of the CyberKnife: a robotic frameless stereotactic radiosurgical system Neurosurgery 52 140-6
9. Chaves A, Lopes M C, Alves C C, Oliveira C, Peralta L, Rodrigues P and Trindade A 2003 Basic dosimetry of radiosurgery narrow beams using Monte Carlo simulations: a detailed study of depth of maximum dose Med. Phys. 30 2904-11
10. Chetty I, DeMarco J J and Solberg T D 2000 A virtual source model for Monte Carlo modelling of arbitrary intensity distributions Med. Phys. 27 166-72
11. Cheung J Y, Yu K N, Yu C P and Ho R T 1998 Monte Carlo calculation of single-beam dose profiles used in a gamma knife treatment planning system Med. Phys. 25 1673-5
12. Cheung J Y, Yu K N, Ho R T and Yu C P 1999 Monte Carlo calculated output factors of a Leksell Gamma Knife unit Phys. Med. Biol. 44 N247-9
13. Deguchi K, Fukuiwa T, Saito K and Kurono Y 2002 Application of Cyberknife for the treatment of juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma: a case report Auris. Nasus. Larynx. 29 395-400
14. DeMarco J J, Solberg T D and Smathers J B 1998 A CT-based Monte Carlo simulation tool for dosimetry planning and analysis Med. Phys. 25 1-11
15. Deng J, Jiang S B, Kapur A, Li J, Pawlicki T and Ma C M 2000 Photon beam characterization and modelling for Monte Carlo treatment planning Phys. Med. Biol. 45 411-27
16. Deng J, Ma C M, Hai J and Nath R 2003 Commissioning 6 MV photon beams of a stereotactic radiosurgery system for Monte Carlo treatment planning Med. Phys. 30 3124-34
17. Desobry G E and Boyer A L 1994 An analytic calculation of the energy fluence spectrum of a linear accelerator Med. Phys. 21 1943-52
18. Faddegon B A, Balogh J, Mackenzie R and Scora D 1998 Clinical considerations of Monte Carlo for electron radiotherapy treatment planning Radiat. Phys. Chem. 53 217-28
19. Gerszten P C, Ozhasoglu C, Burton S A, Vogel W, Atkins B, Kalnicki S and Welch W C 2003 Evaluation of CyberKnife frameless real-time image-guided stereotactic radiosurgery for spinal lesions Stereotact. Funct. Neurosurg. 81 84-9
20. Guerrero T, Pawlicki T, Jiang S B, Hai J, Luxton G, Ozhasoglu C, Adler J R and Ma C M 2000 Monte Carlo for the Cyberknife Proc. 13th Int. Conf. on the Use of Computers in Radiation Therapy ed W Schlegel and T Bortfeld (Berlin: Springer) pp 344-6
21. Hartmann-Siantar C L et al 2001 Description and dosimetric verification of the PEREGRINE Monte Carlo dose calculation system for photon beams incident on a water phantom Med. Phys. 28 1322-37
22. Kawrakow I and Fippel M 2000 Investigation of variance reduction techniques for Monte Carlo photon dose calculation using XVMC Phys. Med. Biol. 45 2163-83
23. Kawrakow I, Fippel M and Friedrich K 1996 3D electron dose calculation using a Voxel based Monte Carlo algorithm (VMC) Med. Phys. 23 445-57
24. King C R, Lehmann J, Adler J R and Hai J 2003 CyberKnife radiotherapy for localized prostate cancer: rationale and technical feasibility Technol. Cancer Res. Treat. 2 25-30
25. Kubsad S S, Mackie T R, Gehring M A, Misisco D J, Paliwal B R, Mehta M P and Kinsella T J 1990 Monte Carlo and convolution dosimetry for stereotactic radiosurgery Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. Phys. 19 1027-35
26. Li J, Pawlicki T, Deng J, Jiang S B, Mok E and Ma C M 2000 Validation of a Monte Carlo dose calculation tool for radiotherapy treatment planning Phys. Med. Biol. 45 2969-85
27. Lim M, Gibbs I C, Adler J R, Martin D P and Chang S D 2003 The efficacy of linear accelerator stereotactic radiosurgery in treating glomus jugulare tumours Technol. Cancer Res. Treat. 2 261-5
28. Liu H H, Mackie T R and McCullough E C 1997a Calculating dose and output factors for wedged photon radiotherapy fields using a convolution/superposition method Med. Phys. 24 1714-28
29. Liu H H, Mackie T R and McCullough E C 1997b A dual source photon beam model used in convolution/superposition dose calculations for clinical megavoltage x-ray beams Med. Phys. 24 1960-74
30. Liu H H, Mackie T R and McCullough E C 1997c Calculating output factors for clinical photon beam radiotherapy using a convolution/superposition method based on a dual source photon beam model Med. Phys. 24 1975-85
31. Lovelock D M J, Chui C S and Mohan R 1995 A Monte Carlo model of photon beams used in radiation therapy Med. Phys. 22 1387-94
32. Ma C-M 1998 Characterization of computer simulated radiotherapy beams for Monte Carlo treatment planning Radiat. Phys. Chem. 53 329-44
33. Ma C-M, Faddegon B A, Rogers D W O and Mackie T R 1997 Accurate characterization of Monte Carlo calculated electron beams for radio-therapy Med. Phys. 24 401-16
34. Ma C-M, Li J, Pawlicki T, Jiang S B and Deng J 2002 A Monte Carlo dose calculation tool for radiotherapy treatment planning Phys. Med. Biol. 47 1671-89
35. Ma C-M, Mok E, Kapur A, Pawlicki T, Findley D, Brain S, Forster K and Boyer A L 1999 Clinical implementation of a Monte Carlo treatment planning system Med. Phys. 26 2133-43
36. Ma C-M and Rogers D W O 1995a BEAM Characterization: A Multiple-Source Model National Research Council Repori PIRS-0509(C) (Ottawa: National Research Council)
37. Ma C-M and Rogers D W O 1995b BEAMDP Users Manual National Research Council Report PIRS-0509 (D) (Ottawa: National Research Council)
38. Mack A, Scheib S G, Major J, Gianolini S, Pazmandi G, Feist H, Czempiel H and Kremer H J 2002 Precision dosimetry for narrow photon beams used in radiosurgery-determination of Gamma Knife output factors Med. Phys. 29 2080-9
39. Mackie T R 1990 Applications of the Monte Carlo method in radiotherapy Dosimetry of Ionizing Radiation vol 3 ed K Kase, B Bjarngard and F H Attix (New York: Academic) pp 541-620
40. Mehta V K, Lee Q T, Chang S D, Cherney S and Adler J R 2002 Image guided stereotactic radiosurgery for lesions in proximity to the anterior visual pathways: a preliminary report Technol. Cancer Res. Treat. 1 173-80
41. Mohan R, Chui C and Lidofsky L 1985 Energy and angular distributions of photons from medical linear accelerators Med. Phys. 12 592-7
42. Moskvin V, DesRosiers C, Papiez L, Timmerman R, Randall M and DesRosiers P 2002 Monte Carlo simulation of the Leksell Gamma Knife: I. Source modelling and calculations in homogeneous media Phys. Med. Biol. 47 1995-2011
43. Nelson R, Hirayama H and Rogers D W O 1985 The EGS4 Code System Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Report SLAC-265 (Stanford, CA: SLAC)
44. Ponsky L E, Crownover R L, Rosen M J, Rodebaugh R F, Castilla E A, Brainard J, Cherullo E E and Novick A C 2003 Initial evaluation of Cyberknife technology for extracorporeal renal tissue ablation Urology 61 498-501
45. Rogers D W O and Bielajew A F 1990 Monte Carlo techniques of electron and photon transport for radiation dosimetry Dosimetry of Ionizing Radiation vol 3 ed K Kase, B Bjarngard and F H Attix (New York: Academic) pp 427-539
46. Rogers D W O, Faddegon B A, Ding G X, Ma C M, Wei J S and Mackie T R 1995 BEAM: A Monte Carlo code to simulate radiotherapy treatment units Med. Phys. 22 503-24
47. Romanelli P, Heit G, Chang S D, Martin D, Pham C and Adler J 2003 Cyberknife radiosurgery for trigeminal neuralgia Stereotact. Funct. Neurosurg. 81 105-9
48. Ryu S I, Chang S D, Kim D H, Murphy M J, Le Q T, Martin D P and Adler J R 2001 Image-guided hypo-fractionated stereotactic radiosurgery to spinal lesion Neurosurgery 49 838-46
49. Sanchez-Doblado F, Andreo P, Capote R, Leal A, Perucha M, Arrans R, Nunez L, Mainegra E, Lagares J I and Carrasco E 2003 Ionization chamber dosimetry of small photon fields: a Monte Carlo study on stopping-power ratios for radiosurgery and IMRT beams Phys. Med. Biol. 48 2081-99
50. Seuntjens J and Verhaegen F 2003 Comments on 'ionization chamber dosimetry of small photon fields: a Monte Carlo study on stopping-power ratios for radiosurgery and IMRT beams' Phys. Med. Biol. 48 L43-5
51. Sheikh-Bagheri D and Rogers D W O 2002 Monte Carlo calculation of nine megavoltage photon beam spectra using the BEAM code Med. Phys. 29 391-402
52. Shimamoto S, Inoue T, Shiomi H, Sumida I, Yamada Y, Tanaka E and Inoue T 2002 CyberKnife stereotactic irradiation for metastatic brain tumours Radiat. Med. 20 299-304
53. Shiomi H, Inoue T, Nakamura S and Inoue T 2000 Quality assurance for an image-guided frameless radiosurgery system using radiochromic film Radiat. Med. 18 107-13
54. Sixel K E and Faddegon B A 1995 Calculation of x-ray spectra for radiosurgical beams Med. Phys. 22 1657-61
55. Verhaegen F, Das I J and Palmans H 1998 Monte Carlo dosimetry study of a 6 MV stereotactic radiosurgery unit Phys. Med. Biol. 43 2755-768
56. Wang L, Chui C and Lovelock M A 1998 A patient-specific Monte Carlo dose-calculation method for photon beams Med. Phys. 25 867-78
57. Whyte R I, Crownover R, Murphy M J, Martin D P, Rice T W, DeCamp M M Jr, Rodebaugh R, Weinhous M S and Le Q T 2003 Stereotactic radiosurgery for lung tumours: preliminary report of a phase I trial Anti. Thorac. Surg. 75 1097-101
58. Yamamoto T, Teshima T, Miyajima S, Matsumoto M, Shiomi H, Inoue T and Hirayama H 2002 Monte Carlo calculation of depth doses for small field of CyberKnife Radiat. Med. 20 305-10
59. Yu C, Jozsef G, Apuzzo M L and Petrovich Z 2003 Dosimetric comparison of CyberKnife with other radiosurgical modalities for an ellipsoidal target Neurosurgery 53 1155-63
60. Yu C, Jozsef G, Apuzzo M L and Petrovich Z 2004 Measurements of the relative output factors for CyberKnife collimators Neurosurgery 54 157-62