Planar EPID-Based Dosimetry for SRS and SRT Patient-Specific QA

Abstract

The study’s purpose was to develop and validate Electronic Portal Imaging Device (EPID)-based dosimetry for Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS) and Stereotactic Radiation Therapy (SRT) patient-specific Quality Assurance (QA). The co-operation between extended Source-to-Imager Distance (SID) to reduce the saturation effect and simplify the EPID-based dosimetry model was used to perform patient-specific QA in SRS and SRT plans. The four parameters were included for converting the image to dose at depth 10 cm; dose-response linearity with MU, beam profile correction, collimator scatter and water kernel. The model accuracy was validated with 10 SRS/SRT plans. The traditional diode arrays with MapCHECK were also used to perform patient-specific QA for assuring model accuracy. The 150 cm-SID was found a possibility to reduce the saturation effect. The result of model accuracy was found good agreement between our EPID-based dosimetry and TPS calculation with GPR more than 98% for gamma criteria of 3%/3 mm, more than 95% for gamma criteria of 2%/2 mm, and the results related to the measurement with MapCHECK. This study demonstrated the method to perform SRT and SRT patient-specific QA using EPID-based dosimetry in the FFF beam by co-operating between the extended SID that can reduce the saturation effect and estimate the planar dose distribution with the in-house model.

Keywords

• SRS patient-specific QA
• EPID-based dosimetry
• FFF beam verification