Adding customized electron energy beams to TrueBeam linear accelerators

Autor:	Song Gao, Manickam Muruganandham, Weiliang Du, Jared Ohrt, Rajat J. Kudchadker, Peter A. Balter
Rok vydání:	2022
Předmět:	Radiation Phantoms Imaging Radiotherapy Planning Computer-Assisted Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Electrons Radiotherapy Dosage Particle Accelerators Radiometry Instrumentation
Zdroj:	Journal of applied clinical medical physics. 23(7)
ISSN:	1526-9914
Popis:	To better meet clinical needs and facilitate optimal treatment planning, we added two new electron energy beams (7 and 11 MeV) to two Varian TrueBeam linacs.We worked with the vendor to create two additional customized electron energies without hardware modifications. For each beam, we set the bending magnet current and then optimized other beam-specific parameters to achieve depths of 50% ionization (IThe IWe were able to add two new beam energies with no hardware modifications. Tuning of the new beams was facilitated by the ICP/DW system allowing us to have the procedures done in a few hours and achieve highly consistent results across two linacs. PACS numbers: 87.55.Qr, 87.56.Fc.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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