Development of a one-stop beam verification system using electronic portal imaging devices for routine quality assurance
- Authors
- Lim, Sangwook; Ma, Sun Young; Jeung, Tae Sig; Yi, Byong Yong; Lee, Sang Hoon; Lee, Suk; Cho, Sam Ju; Choi, Jinho
- Issue Date
- 2012
- Publisher
- ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
- Keywords
- EPID; Daily QA; Radiation field
- Citation
- MEDICAL DOSIMETRY, v.37, no.3, pp.296 - 304
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- MEDICAL DOSIMETRY
- Volume
- 37
- Number
- 3
- Start Page
- 296
- End Page
- 304
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/106625
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.meddos.2011.11.003
- ISSN
- 0958-3947
- Abstract
- In this study, a computer-based system for routine quality assurance (QA) of a linear accelerator (linac) was developed by using the dosimetric properties of an amorphous silicon electronic portal imaging device (EPID). An acrylic template phantom was designed such that it could be placed on the EPID and be aligned with the light field of the collimator. After irradiation, portal images obtained from the EPID were transferred in DICOM format to a computer and analyzed using a program we developed. The symmetry, flatness, field size, and congruence of the light and radiation fields of the photon beams from the linac were verified simultaneously. To validate the QA system, the ion chamber and film (X-Omat V2; Kodak, New York, NY) measurements were compared with the EPID measurements obtained in this study. The EPID measurements agreed with the film measurements. Parameters for beams with energies of 6 MV and 15 MV were obtained daily for 1 month using this system. It was found that our QA tool using EPID could substitute for the film test, which is a time-consuming method for routine QA assessment. (C) 2012 American Association of Medical Dosimetrists.
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