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Korean Journal of Medical Physics 2014; 25(1): 15-22

Published online March 30, 2014

Copyright © Korean Society of Medical Physics.

The Output Factor of Small Field in Multileaf Collimator of 6 MV Photon Beams

다엽제한기 소조사면의 6 MV 광자선 출력선량계수

Ho Joon Lee*, Tae-Jin Choi*, Young Kee Oh, Kyung Soo Jeun, Yong Hee Lee, Jin Hee Kim, Ok Bae Kim, Se An Oh, Sung Kyu Kim, Ji Woon Yea

이호준*ㆍ최태진*ㆍ오영기ㆍ전경수ㆍ이용희ㆍ김진희ㆍ김옥배ㆍ오세안ㆍ김성규ㆍ예지원

Department of Radiation Oncology, *Daegu Catholic University Medical Center, Keimyung University Dongsan Medical Center, Youngnam University Medical Center, Daegu, Korea

*대구가톨릭대학병원, 계명대학교 동산의료원, 영남대학교병원 방사선종양학과

Received: February 11, 2014; Revised: March 13, 2014; Accepted: March 13, 2014

Abstract

The IMRT is proper implement to get high dose deliver to tumor as its shape and selective approach in radiation therapy. Since the IMRT is performed as modulated the radiation fluence by the MLC created the open shapes and its irradiation time, the dose of segment of radiation field effects on the cumulated portal dose. The accurate output factor of small and step shape of segment is important to improve the determination of deliver tumor dose as it is directly proportional to dose. This experiment performed with the 6 MV photon beam of Clinac Ex(Varian) from 3×3 cm2 to 0.5×0.5 cm2 small field size for collimator jaw in MLC free and/or for MLC open field in fixed collimator jaw 10×10 cm2 using the CC01 ion chamber, SFD diode, diamond detector and X-Omat film dosimetry. As results of normalized to the reference field of 10×10 cm2 of MLC, the output factor of 3×3 cm2 showed 0.899±0.0106, 0.855±0.0106 for 2×2 cm2, 0.764±0.0082 for 1×1 cm2 and 0.602±0.0399 for 0.5×0.5 cm2. The output factor of MLC open field has shown a maximum 3.8% higher than that of the collimator jaw open field.

KeywordsSmall field, Output factor, Film dosimetry

Korean Society of Medical Physics

Vol.35 No.3
September 2024

pISSN 2508-4445
eISSN 2508-4453
Formerly ISSN 1226-5829

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