Rotating and static sources for gamma knife radiosurgery systems: Monte Carlo studies
- Department of Physics and Materials Science, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong (China)
Rotating gamma systems (RGSs), GammaART-6000{sup TM}, and its Chinese equivalents, such as OUR and MASEP, etc., are new radiosurgery systems that use rotating {sup 60}Co sources instead of the 201 static sources (Leksell gamma knife, LGK). The rotating sources of RGSs simulate an infinite number of beams and promote extremely high target to surface dose ratios. However, the results of Monte Carlo in this study shows that RGS variants (modeled as having the same latitude angles, source to focus distance, and the distance from the source to the end of the collimator as the LGK) have smaller beam profile penumbra in the z direction, while LGK has smaller penumbra in the x and y directions. The differences are more significant in using larger collimators.
- OSTI ID:
- 20853225
- Journal Information:
- Medical Physics, Vol. 33, Issue 7; Other Information: DOI: 10.1118/1.2207313; (c) 2006 American Association of Physicists in Medicine; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-2405
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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