Evaluation of the Eclipse eMC algorithm for bolus electron conformal therapy using a standard verification dataset
| Autor: | John A. Antolak, Conrad P. Sprunger, Kenneth R. Hogstrom, Robert L. Carver, Richard A. Popple |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Electron therapy
medicine.medical_treatment Monte Carlo method Electrons Imaging phantom Standard deviation 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging electron Monte Carlo 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Bolus (medicine) medicine Radiation Oncology Physics Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Radiation treatment planning Instrumentation electron therapy Mathematics Radiation Phantoms Imaging business.industry Radiotherapy Planning Computer-Assisted Retromolar Trigone conformal therapy Radiotherapy Dosage bolus 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Radiotherapy Conformal Nuclear medicine business Monte Carlo Method Algorithm Algorithms Smoothing |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics |
| ISSN: | 1526-9914 |
| DOI: | 10.1120/jacmp.v17i3.5885 |
| Popis: | The purpose of this study was to evaluate the accuracy and calculation speed of electron dose distributions calculated by the Eclipse electron Monte Carlo (eMC) algorithm for use with bolus electron conformal therapy (ECT). The recent commercial availability of bolus ECT technology requires further validation of the eMC dose calculation algorithm. eMC‐calculated electron dose distributions for bolus ECT have been compared to previously measured TLD‐dose points throughout patient‐based cylindrical phantoms (retromolar trigone and nose), whose axial cross sections were based on the mid‐PTV (planning treatment volume) CT anatomy. The phantoms consisted of SR4 muscle substitute, SR4 bone substitute, and air. The treatment plans were imported into the Eclipse treatment planning system, and electron dose distributions calculated using 1% and |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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