会议专题

Beam Characteristics and stopping power ratios of small radiosurgery fields

  Small megavoltage (MV) photon fields<3×3cm2 are increasingly being used in modern radiation therapy.This study presents the characteristics small photon beams and investigates the variations of energy spectra of photons and electrons as a function of field size and their effects on the stopping power ratios for field sizes ranging from a small 4 mm field to a 10×10 cm2 field by using Monte Carlo techniques.The accelerator head and circular cone accessory were simulated in detail including two designs of flattening filters: one for a standard dose rate (100-600 MU/min) and the other for a high-dose rate (1000 MU/min) 6 MV beam.The mean energy of photons at depths (1.5 cm-30 cm) in water are 1.72-2.36 MeV,1.66-2.25 MeV,and 1.44-1.74 MeV for field sizes of 4 mm,30 mm,and 10×10 cm2 respectively.The mean energy also varies significantly for electrons at depths (1.5 cm-30 cm): 0.99-1.25 MeV,0.95 – 1.14 MeV,and 0.93 - 1.04 MeV for field sizes of 4 mm,30 mm,and 10×10 cm2 respectively.The calculated water-to-air stopping power ratios at depths (1.5 cm-30 cm) are 1.120-1.113,1.121-1.117,and 1.122-1.119 for field sizes of 4 mm,30 mm,and 10×10 cm2 respectively.Although the changes of mean energy are>20% for photons and> 5% for electrons between 4 mm field and 10×10 cm2,the effects on the stopping powers are insignificant (<0.5%).However,for detectors with responses to energy changes that are not negligible,energy variations between small fields and the 10×10 cm2 field may have significant impact on the dosimetry accuracy.This study also found negligible differences in dosimetric parameters between beams with different flattening filters when both have the same values %dd(10)x.

Radiosurgery beams radiation dosimetry Monte Carlo simulations energy spectra stopping power ratios

George X. Ding Frances Ding

Department of Radiation Oncology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA Ravenwood High School, Brentwood, TN, USA

国际会议

World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (2012年医学物理及生物医学工程国际会议(IFMBE))

北京

英文

1237-1240

2012-05-26(万方平台首次上网日期,不代表论文的发表时间)