Poster - Thur Eve - 45: Commissioning of the Varian ECLIPSE eMC algorithm for clinical electron treatment planning. 2012

M Serban, and R Ruo, and A Sarfehnia, and W Parker, and M Evans
McGill University Health Centre, Medical Physics, Montreal, QC, Canada.

Fast electron Monte Carlo systems have been developed commercially, and implemented for clinical practice in radiation therapy clinics. In this work the Varian eMC (electron Monte Carlo) algorithm was commissioned for clinical electron beams of energies between 6 MeV and 20 MeV. Beam outputs, PDDs and profiles were measured for 29 regular and irregular cutouts using the IC-10 (Wellhöfer) ionization chamber. Detailed percentage depth dose comparisons showed that the agreement between measurement and eMC for different characteristic points on the PDD are generally less than 1 mm and always less than 2 mm, with the eMC calculated values being lower than the measured values. Of the 145 measured output factors, 19 cases fail a ±2% agreement but only 8 cases fail a ±3% agreement between calculation and measurement. Comparison of central axis dose distributions for two electron energies (9, and 20 MeV) for a 10 × 10 cm2 field, centrally shielded with Pb of width 0 cm (open), 1, 2 and 3 cm, shows agreement to within 3% except near the surface. Comparison of central axis dose distributions for 9 MeV in heterogeneous phantoms including bone and lung inserts showed agreement of 1 mm and 3 mm respectively with measured TLD data. The overall agreement between measurement and eMC calculation has enabled us to begin implementing this calculation model for clinical use.

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