Investigation of Leakage and Transmission Radiation through the MLC Version I2 Applied To the Elekta Synergy 6 MV Photon Beam Linac

Abstract

Introduction: Radiotherapy and nuclear medicine extensively use Monte Carlo simulation to study particle transport and interactions. The aim of this task is the investigation and simulation of leakage and transmission (L&T) particles using the Multi-Leaf Collimator version i2 applied to the Elekta Synergy linac.Material and Methods: In this study, all linac segments are included in the simulation model. In order to reduce MC calculation time, the new HPC-Slurm cluster platform and the Python phase space approach are used. To study the transmission between MLCi2 leaves, a detailed analysis of the dose distribution was conducted.Results: The simulation results obtained with Gate 9.0 MC are excellently correlated with the measured data with error estimates for the 6 MV photon beam parameters less than 1% and a validation level of 99% in terms of the gamma index's (2%/2mm) threshold formalism for the cross profiles and PDD's dose distributions. The results indicate that contamination particles (e-, e+) have an effect on the distribution of dose in the patient. These particles are present in the beam produced previously and which is assumed to contain only X-rays. In addition, a three-dimensional distribution of dose inside the tumor (CT-scan) confirms the L&T effect of the studied version of the multi leaf collimator (MLCi2), with a dose range of around 70% of the delivered dose to the tumor, resulting in secondary outcomes at the DNA.Conclusion: Consequently, the production of a new generation of MLC that can limit this L&T effect should be encouraged.

Keywords

• radiotherapy monte carlo multi
• leaf collimator mlci2 leakage and transmission l&t