Abstract：Objective To evaluate the peripheral dose (PD) from megavoltage cone-beam CT (MVCBCT) imaging for head-and-neck region image-guided radiation therapy, to determine the correlationof PD with monitor unit (MU), and to investigate the impact of imaging field size on the PD. MethodsMeasurements of PD from MVCBCT were made with a 0.65 cm3 ionization chamber placed in a specially designed phantom at various depths and distances from the field edges. The PD at reference point inside the phantom was measured with the same ionization chamber to investigate the linearity between MU used forMVCBCT and the PD. The homogeneity of PD in the axial plane of the phantom were measured. ResultsPD from MVCBCT increased with increasing number of MU used for imaging and with increasing the field size. The measured PD in the phantom decreased exponentially as distance from the field edges increased. PD also decreased as the depth from the phantom surface increased. There was a strong linear relationship between PD and MUs used for MVCBCT. The PD was heterogeneous, with higher dose at the anterior than the posterior. Conclusions The PD from MVCBCT depend much on the MVCBCT delivery MU and the scan field size. In clinic, using the smallest number of MU allowable and reducing MVCBCT scanning field size without compromising acquired image quality is an effective method of reducing the PD.
JIA Ming-xuan*,LIU Da-wei,ZHANG Xu et al. Measurements of the peripheral dose from megavoltage cone-beam CT imaging for head-and-neck region image-guided radiation therapy[J]. Chinese Journal of Radiation Oncology, 2013, 22(2): 151-153.
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