Quality control of radiotherapy treatment plans with electrons
In this work the quality of the treatment planning generated by EclipseÒ commercial treatment planning system for electron beams of energy 9 and 20 MeV was verified and their accuracy in the calculation of dose distributions for several clinical situations was evaluated. Tests cases had been develo...
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Brazilian Radiation Protection Society (Sociedade Brasileira de Proteção Radiológica, SBPR)
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| author | Luciana Tourinho Campos Luiz Ribeiro da Rosa Delano Valdivino Batista Delson Braz |
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In this work the quality of the treatment planning generated by EclipseÒ commercial treatment planning system for electron beams of energy 9 and 20 MeV was verified and their accuracy in the calculation of dose distributions for several clinical situations was evaluated. Tests cases had been developed according to the Brazilian reality, having as reference the radiotherapy treatments carried out in the National Institute of the Cancer.The system developed for checking the quality of treatment planning systems with electrons was efficient in evaluating the Eclipse planning system by identifying the failures of their algorithms, especially in planning the isodose. The verification system has been validated against the Monte Carlo method and the experimental data with an ionization chamber and showed the shortcomings of generalized pencil beam and eMC algorithms.
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| spelling | doaj.art-8ce9c123a7054fcd9817aee63af3a14b2022-12-22T03:34:44ZengBrazilian Radiation Protection Society (Sociedade Brasileira de Proteção Radiológica, SBPR)Brazilian Journal of Radiation Sciences2319-06122019-01-017110.15392/bjrs.v7i1.785Quality control of radiotherapy treatment plans with electronsLuciana Tourinho Campos0Luiz Ribeiro da Rosa1Delano Valdivino Batista2Delson Braz3Universidade do Estado do Rio JaneiroInstituto de Radioproteção e Dosimetria – IRD/CNEN, Rio de Janeiro- RJ, BrazilInstituto de Radioproteção e Dosimetria – IRD/CNEN, Rio de Janeiro- RJ, Brazillaboratório de Instrumentação Nuclear – COPPE/UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro- RJ, Brazil In this work the quality of the treatment planning generated by EclipseÒ commercial treatment planning system for electron beams of energy 9 and 20 MeV was verified and their accuracy in the calculation of dose distributions for several clinical situations was evaluated. Tests cases had been developed according to the Brazilian reality, having as reference the radiotherapy treatments carried out in the National Institute of the Cancer.The system developed for checking the quality of treatment planning systems with electrons was efficient in evaluating the Eclipse planning system by identifying the failures of their algorithms, especially in planning the isodose. The verification system has been validated against the Monte Carlo method and the experimental data with an ionization chamber and showed the shortcomings of generalized pencil beam and eMC algorithms. https://bjrs.org.br/revista/index.php/REVISTA/article/view/785radiotherapyMonte Carlo dosimetryEGSnrc. |
| spellingShingle | Luciana Tourinho Campos Luiz Ribeiro da Rosa Delano Valdivino Batista Delson Braz Quality control of radiotherapy treatment plans with electrons Brazilian Journal of Radiation Sciences radiotherapy Monte Carlo dosimetry EGSnrc. |
| title | Quality control of radiotherapy treatment plans with electrons |
| title_full | Quality control of radiotherapy treatment plans with electrons |
| title_fullStr | Quality control of radiotherapy treatment plans with electrons |
| title_full_unstemmed | Quality control of radiotherapy treatment plans with electrons |
| title_short | Quality control of radiotherapy treatment plans with electrons |
| title_sort | quality control of radiotherapy treatment plans with electrons |
| topic | radiotherapy Monte Carlo dosimetry EGSnrc. |
| url | https://bjrs.org.br/revista/index.php/REVISTA/article/view/785 |
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