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Patient-specific quality assurance for intracranial cases in robotic radiosurgery system.

Authors: Köksal Akbaş, Canan; Akbaş, U?ur; Dönmez Kesen, Nazmiye; Okutan, Murat; Bilge, Hatice; Kemikler, Gönül;

Patient-specific quality assurance for intracranial cases in robotic radiosurgery system.

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The purpose of this study was to perform pretreatment patient-specific quality assurance (QA) for intracranial irradiation using CyberKnife with an ion chamber.Twenty-five intracranial plans created using the ray-tracing algorithm were used for this study. Computed tomography (CT) images of the water-equivalent RW3 slab phantom with PinPoint ionization chamber were acquired with 1-mm slice thickness and transferred to the MultiPlan treatment planning system (TPS). Four gold fiducial markers embedded into two different plates were used to tracking during the irradiation. Intracranial plans were transferred to CT images of the RW3 phantom. The isodose curves and sensitive volume of ion chamber were overlapped. Point dose measurements were performed three times and the mean point doses were calculated for each plan. The mean doses measured by the PinPoint ion chamber were compared with those of the calculated by MultiPlan TPS in the sensitive volume of PinPoint.The mean percentage difference (MPD) in point dose measurements was -2.44±1.97 for 25 plans. The maximum and minimum percentage differences between the measured and calculated absolute point doses were -7.14 and 0.23, respectively. The MPD was -1.70±1.90 for 12 plans using a fixed collimator and -3.11±1.86 for 13 plans using an IRIS cone.Point dose measurement is a reliable and functional method for pre-treatment patient-specific QA in intracranial CyberKnife plans. Point dose verification should be performed to correct any possible errors prior to patient treatment. It is recommended for use in patient-specific QA process in the CyberKnife plans.

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Quality Assurance, Health Care, Brain Neoplasms, Phantoms, Imaging, Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted, CyberKnife, Radiotherapy Dosage, Point dose measurement, Radiosurgery, Quality assurance, Robotic Surgical Procedures, Humans, Algorithms, PinPoint ionization chamber

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