SU-E-T-537: Photon Beam Modeling and Verification of Collapsed Cone Convolution Algorithm for Dose Calculation in a Radiation Treatment Planning System.

PURPOSE

The aim of this study is to evaluate the accuracy the collapsed cone convolution (CCC) algorithm for dose calculation in a radiation treatment planning system (TPS).

METHODS

We modeled various photon beams for various setup conditions in a radiation treatment planning system (CorePLANTM, Seoul C&J, Korea). The beam models were generated at various set-up conditions such as open beam or wedged beam, 6 MV or 15 MV beam and field sizes from 4×4 cm to 40 × 40 cm . Each beam model was optimized by spectrum modeling from measured percent depth dose (PDD) data, dose profile modeling from a measured profile at a specific depth (10 cm) data. Dose calculation was performed using conventional CCC algorithm. All measured data were acquired from a Clinac 21EX (Varian Medical System, Palo Alto, CA, USA) linear accelerator with the setting of SSD = 100 cm. All calculated PDD and dose profiles at various depths from generated beam models were compared to the measured data.

RESULTS

Calculated dose data from each beam model showed good agreements within 2% of difference to the measured PDD and within 3% dose profiles at various depths. Some regions such as penumbra region at 20 × 20 cm field size and horn region at wedge field showed dose discrepancies over 3%. The results of PDD at all situations showed well agreement with measured data under the 10×10 cm field size. For wedged cases, however, under the 5 cm depths, some inconsistency at penumbra region were appeared.

CONCLUSIONS

In this study, we verified the accuracy of CCC algorithm in the TPS. Calculated results by our implemented algorithm was well satisfied with measured dose at small field size (〈20 7 times; 20 cm ). Our next study will perform to compensate theses inconsistencies.