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. 2023 Mar;16(1):10-19.
doi: 10.1007/s12194-022-00684-0. Epub 2022 Oct 22.

Small-field dosimetry with detector-specific output correction factor for single-isocenter stereotactic radiotherapy of single and multiple brain metastases

Tomohiro Ono  1 , Kohei Kawata  2 , Mitsuhiro Nakamura  3 , Megumi Uto  4 , Takashi Mizowaki  4
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Small-field dosimetry with detector-specific output correction factor for single-isocenter stereotactic radiotherapy of single and multiple brain metastases

Tomohiro Ono et al. Radiol Phys Technol. 2023 Mar.

Abstract

Recently, the International Atomic Energy Agency and the American Association of Physicists in Medicine reported correction factors (CFs) for detector-response variation considering the uncertainty in detector readings in small-field dosimetry. In this study, the effect of CFs on small-field dosimetry measurements was evaluated for single-isocenter stereotactic radiotherapy for brain metastases. The output factors (OPFs) were measured with and without CFs in a water-equivalent sphere phantom using TrueBeam with a flattening-filter-free energy of 10 MV. Five detectors were used in a perpendicular orientation: CC01, 3D pinpoint ionization chambers, unshielded SFD detector, shielded EDGE detector, and microDiamond detector. First, the square-field sizes were set to 5-100 mm using a multi-leaf collimator (MLC) field. The OPFs were evaluated in the presence and absence of CFs. Second, single-isocenter stereotactic irradiation was performed on 22 brain metastases in 15 patients following dynamic conformal arc (DCA) treatment. The equivalent field size was calculated using the MLC aperture for each planning target volume. For the OPFs, the mean deviations from the median of the doses measured with detectors other than the CC01 for square-field sizes larger than 10 mm were within ± 4.3% of the median without CFs, and ± 3.3% with CFs. For DCA plans, the deviations without and with CFs were - 2.3 ± 1.9% and - 4.8 ± 2.4% for CC01, - 1.1 ± 3.0% and 1.0 ± 1.6% for 3D pinpoint, 8.8 ± 3.0% and 2.9 ± 2.8% for SFD, - 3.1 ± 3.0% and - 13.5 ± 4.0% for EDGE, and 8.9 ± 2.1% and 0.8 ± 1.9% for microDiamond. This feasibility study confirmed that the deviation of the detectors can be reduced using an appropriate detector with CFs.

Keywords: Detector-dependent output correction factor; Multiple brain metastases; Patient-specific quality assurance; Small-field dosimetry.

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