Phantomless patient-specific TomoTherapy QA via delivery performance monitoring and a secondary Monte Carlo dose calculation

Lydia L. Handsfield; Ryan Jones; David D. Wilson; Jeffery V. Siebers; Paul W. Read; Quan Chen

doi:10.1118/1.4894721

Phantomless patient-specific TomoTherapy QA via delivery performance monitoring and a secondary Monte Carlo dose calculation

Lydia L. Handsfield, Ryan Jones, David D. Wilson, Jeffery V. Siebers, Paul W. Read, Quan Chen

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Purpose: To describe the validation and implementation of a novel quality assurance (QA) system for TomoTherapy using a Monte Carlo (MC)-based secondary dose calculation and CT detector-based multileaf collimator (MLC) leaf opening time measurement QA verification. This system is capable of detecting plan transfer and delivery errors and evaluating the dosimetric impact of those errors.

Original language	English
Article number	101703
Journal	Medical Physics
Volume	41
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1118/1.4894721
State	Published - Oct 1 2014

Keywords

Monte Carlo
TomoTherapy
log file
phantomless
quality assurance

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Biophysics
Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging

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