Electron dose distributions in an anthropomorphic phantom--verification of Theraplan treatment planning algorithm

Journal Article · Thu Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1988 · Medical Dosimetry; (USA)

OSTI ID:5458855

Cygler, J; Ross, J ^[1]

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1. Ottawa Regional Cancer Centre, Ontario (Canada)

As part of a Quality Assurance program, the performance of Theraplan (Version 4.0) for electron beam calculations was checked versus experiments carried out with an anthropomorphic (Rando) phantom. Large disagreements (up to 40%) between measured and calculated dose distributions were discovered which could not be explained in terms of the assumptions inherent in the code. Analysis of this data has led to discovery of an error in the software. AECL is working at present on a new software version with this error corrected.

• OSTI ID: 5458855
• Journal Information: Medical Dosimetry; (USA), Vol. 13:3; ISSN 0739-0211
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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61 RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY
RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS
T CODES
RADIOTHERAPY
QUALITY ASSURANCE
ALGORITHMS
ELECTRON BEAMS
ERRORS
PHANTOMS
PLANNING
RADIATION DOSES
BEAMS
COMPUTER CODES
DOSES
LEPTON BEAMS
MATHEMATICAL LOGIC
MEDICINE
MOCKUP
NUCLEAR MEDICINE
PARTICLE BEAMS
RADIOLOGY
STRUCTURAL MODELS
THERAPY
655003* - Medical Physics- Dosimetry