Evaluation Of Dosimetric Characteristics Of The Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion Collimator SectorsP. Jagdish1, Josef Novotny Jr.1, Saiful M. Huq11Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, USA Keywords: gamma knife, dosimetry, physics, Robotic, dose deliveryInteractive Manuscript
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What is the background behind your study?
The perfexion unit has collimator sectors that must be maintained.
What is the purpose of your study?
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the dosimetric characteristics of each sector of Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion (LGK PFX) and to determine tests that can be done for routine quality control of sectors of LGK PFX.
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Describe what you did.
Following tests were done to evaluate dosimetric characteristics of sectors: (1) Sector output uniformity, (2) Individual sector relative isodose distribution, (3) Total transit doses for 16, 8, and 4 mm collimators, (4) Uniformity of individual sector transit doses, (5) Sector leakage measurements. For all measurements, both solid water and ABS phantoms from Elekta, AB were used with Exradin A16 ion chamber placed at the center of phantoms.
Describe your main findings.
The sector output uniformity was determined to be within + 0.9% of the average dose output for all sectors. Preliminary results on comparison of isodoses obtained from Gafchromic film dosimetry and Leksell GammaPlan show good agreement between measured and calculated dose distribution for each sector. The total transit doses for 16, 8 and 4 mm collimators were measured to be 1.0%, 0.5%, and 0.3% of the dose rates measured with respective collimators. The transit dose for each sector varied very little and was measured to be 0.15% of 16 mm collimator dose rate. The leakage radiation from each sector also varied very little and was measured to be 0.4% of 16 mm collimator dose rate.
Describe the main limitation of this study.
This was tested at only one center.
Describe your main conclusion.
In conclusion, our measurements show that the measured dosimetric characteristics of all sectors are satisfactory.
Describe the importance of your findings and how they can be used by others.
It is our recommendation that the sector performance of LGK PFX be determined initially at the time of installation of LGK PFX and thereafter, sector output uniformity be verified on an annual basis.
The perfexion unit has collimator sectors that must be maintained.
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the dosimetric characteristics of each sector of Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion (LGK PFX) and to determine tests that can be done for routine quality control of sectors of LGK PFX.
Following tests were done to evaluate dosimetric characteristics of sectors: (1) Sector output uniformity, (2) Individual sector relative isodose distribution, (3) Total transit doses for 16, 8, and 4 mm collimators, (4) Uniformity of individual sector transit doses, (5) Sector leakage measurements. For all measurements, both solid water and ABS phantoms from Elekta, AB were used with Exradin A16 ion chamber placed at the center of phantoms.
The sector output uniformity was determined to be within + 0.9% of the average dose output for all sectors. Preliminary results on comparison of isodoses obtained from Gafchromic film dosimetry and Leksell GammaPlan show good agreement between measured and calculated dose distribution for each sector. The total transit doses for 16, 8 and 4 mm collimators were measured to be 1.0%, 0.5%, and 0.3% of the dose rates measured with respective collimators. The transit dose for each sector varied very little and was measured to be 0.15% of 16 mm collimator dose rate. The leakage radiation from each sector also varied very little and was measured to be 0.4% of 16 mm collimator dose rate.
This was tested at only one center.
In conclusion, our measurements show that the measured dosimetric characteristics of all sectors are satisfactory.
It is our recommendation that the sector performance of LGK PFX be determined initially at the time of installation of LGK PFX and thereafter, sector output uniformity be verified on an annual basis.
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P. Jagdish (), J. Novotny Jr. (), S. Huq ()
