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Area of Science:

  • Medical Physics
  • Radiation Oncology
  • Radiotherapy Quality Assurance

Background:

  • Noncoplanar beams improve dose conformity and organ-at-risk sparing in radiotherapy.
  • Verifying dose distributions from noncoplanar fields requires comparing treatment planning system (TPS) calculations with measurements.
  • Current TPS struggle to create structures for mimicking measurement devices in noncoplanar configurations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate in-house scripts for generating virtual planes in the Pinnacle(3) TPS.
  • To enable computation of planar dose maps for arbitrary gantry and couch angles in noncoplanar radiotherapy.
  • To assess the feasibility of these scripts for pretreatment dose verification and in vivo dosimetry.

Main Methods:

  • Developed in-house scripts for Pinnacle(3) TPS to create virtual planes at user-defined angles and distances.
  • Computed planar dose distributions using these virtual planes for open and IMRT fields.
  • Validated computed dose distributions against measurements from two independent quality assurance (QA) tools.

Main Results:

  • The in-house scripts successfully generated virtual planes for noncoplanar configurations.
  • Computed planar dose distributions showed good agreement (>95%) with measured data using gamma criteria (3% delta dose, 3 mm DTA).
  • Validation was performed for multiple fields and couch angles, demonstrating script reliability.

Conclusions:

  • The developed scripts provide a feasible method for computing planar dose distributions in noncoplanar radiotherapy within the TPS.
  • This approach can significantly aid in pretreatment dose verification and in vivo dosimetry.
  • The method offers improved quality assurance for complex, noncoplanar treatment plans.