Abstract：Objective To evaluate the effect of carbon fiber couch on dose distribution of radiotherapy planning and verification pass rate. Methds Establishing the carbon fiber treatment couch model in Pinnacle8.0m Treatment Planning system (TPS), and then this model was used to correct dose calculations of oblique fields in the treatment plans of 10 cases of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, 10 cases of breast cancer and 10 cases of lung cancer and evaluate the effect of carbon fiber couch on the whole dose distribution of the plans. Then these plans were measured by three-dimensional dose verification equipment Delta4 to confirm the improvement extent of Gamma pass rate after considering the carbon fiber treatment couch. Results For the majority of plans, when the carbon fiber couch was taken into consideration, the target doses was significantly reduced (4772 cGy-7266 cGy vs.4859 cGy-7347 cGy, P=0.000-0.002) and the relative deviation of D95 was 1% to 3%.Measurement results of Delta4 showed that Gamma pass rate (3 mm/3% criteria) increased in all plans (96.4%-98.8% vs.93.4%-97.3%,P=0.000), some of that were up to 5 percentage when the couch model was applied. Conclusions Target doses will be overestimated if the treatment couch is ignored in TPS measurement., However it should arouse enough attention when the disease with smaller doses corresponding gradient.
Fu Qingguo,Zhu Xiaodong,Yang Haiming et al. The effect of carbon fiber couch on dose distribution of conformal intensity modulated plan[J]. Chinese Journal of Radiation Oncology, 2014, 23(6): 505-508.
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