Evaluation of PTW Seven29 for tomotherapy patient-specific quality assurance and comparison with ScandiDos Delta 4

Journal of Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 72-80

  Myers, Pamela ^a   Stathakis, Sotirios ^a   Gutiérrez, Alonso N ^a   Esquivel, Carlos ^a   Mavroidis, Panayiotis ^a,b   Papanikolaou, Niko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Octavius phantom; patient QA; PTW Seven29; tomotherapy

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAMMA RADIATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; IONIZATION CHAMBER; MALE; PHANTOM; RADIATION FIELD; STANDARD; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING; X RAY FILM;

EID: 84859746236     PISSN: 09716203     EISSN: 19983913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0971-6203.94741     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Bhide SA, Nutting CM. Recent advances in radiotherapy. BMC Med 2010;8:25.
2. Jason Lee M. Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT): A Patient-Centered Guide, University of Pennsylvania, 2002
3. Ezzell GA, Burmeister JW, Dogan N, LoSasso TJ, Mechalakos JG, Mihailidis D, et al. IMRT commissioning: Multiple institution planning and dosimetry comparisons, a report from AAPM Task Group 119. Med Phys 2009;36:5359-73.
4. Bucciolini M, Buonamici FB, Casati M. Verification of IMRT fields by film dosimetry. Med Phys 2004;31:161-8.
5. Ju SG, Ahn YC, Huh SJ, Yeo IJ. Film dosimetry for intensity modulated radiation therapy: Dosimetric evaluation. Med Phys 2002;29:351-5.
6. Ting JY, Davis LW. Dose verification for patients undergoing IMRT. Med Dosim 2001;26:205-13.
7. Xing L, Curran B, Hill R, Holmes T, Ma L, Forster KM, et al. Dosimetric verification of a commercial inverse treatment planning system. Phys Med Biol 1999;44:463-78.
8. Buonamici FB, Compagnucci A, Marrazzo L, Russo S, Bucciolini M. An intercomparison between film dosimetry and diode matrix for IMRT quality assurance. Med Phys 2007;34:1372-9.
9. Geurts M, Gonzalez J, Serrano-Ojeda P. Longitudinal study using a diode phantom for helical tomotherapy IMRT QA. Med Phys 2009;36:4977-83.
10. Spezi E, Angelini AL, Romani F, Ferri A. Characterization of a 2D ion chamber array for the verification of radiotherapy treatments. Phys Med Biol 2005;50:3361-73.
11. Stasi M, Giordanengo S, Cirio R, Boriano A, Bourhaleb F, Cornelius I, et al. D-IMRT verification with a 2D pixel ionization chamber: Dosimetric and clinical results in head and neck cancer. Phys Med Biol 2005;50:4681-94.
12. Chandraraj V, Stathakis S, Manickam R, Esquivel C, Supe SS, Papanikolaou N. Comparison of four commercial devices for RapidArc and sliding window IMRT QA. J Appl Clin Med Phys 2011;12:3367.
13. Chandraraj V, Stathakis S, Manickam R, Esquivel C, Supe SS, Papanikolaou N. Consistency and reproducibility of the VMAT plan delivery using three independent validation methods. J Appl Clin Med Phys 2011;12:3373.
14. Van Esch A, Clermont C, Devillers M, Iori M, Huyskens DP. On-line quality assurance of rotational radiotherapy treatment delivery by means of a 2D ion chamber array and the Octavius phantom. Med Phys 2007;34:3825-37.
15. Bedford JL, Lee YK, Wai P, South CP, Warrington AP. Evaluation of the Delta4 phantom for IMRT and VMAT verification. Phys Med Biol 2009;54:N167-76.
16. Sadagopan R, Bencomo JA, Martin RL, Nilsson G, Matzen T, Balter PA. Characterization and clinical evaluation of a novel IMRT quality assurance system. J Appl Clin Med Phys 2009;10:2928.
17. PTW: 2D-ARRAY seven29 with 729 Ion Chambers. Freiburg, PTW, 2006-2009.
18. PTW: User Manual OCTAVIUS Phantom. Freiburg, PTW-Freiburg, 2007.
19. Almond PR, Biggs PJ, Coursey BM, Hanson WF, Huq MS, Nath R, et al. AAPM's TG-51 protocol for clinical reference dosimetry of highenergy photon and electron beams. Med Phys 1999;26:1847-70.
20. Low DA, Harms WB, Mutic S, Purdy JA. A technique for the quantitative evaluation of dose distributions. Med Phys 1998;25:656-61.
21. ICRU: Prescribing, Recording, and Reporting Photon-Beam Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT), in ICRU Jot (ed), Bethesda, MD, ICRU, 2010.p. 1-96.
22. Kissick MW, Fenwick J, James JA, Jeraj R, Kapatoes JM, Keller H, et al. The helical tomotherapy thread effect. Med Phys 2005;32:1414-23.
23. Westerly DC, Soisson E, Chen Q, Woch K, Schubert L, Olivera G, et al. Treatment planning to improve delivery accuracy and patient throughput in helical tomotherapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2009;74:1290-7.