Limitations of a pencil beam approach to photon dose calculations in lung tissue
(1995) In Physics in Medicine and Biology 40(9). p.1411-1420- Abstract
- A common limitation in treatment planning systems for photon dose calculation is to ignore the impact on electron transport and photon scatter from patient heterogeneities. The heterogeneity correlation is often based on scaling operations along beam rays as for the method according to Batho or the more novel approach of 1D convolutions along beam paths applied in pencil-beam-based systems. The effects of the limitation have been studied in a mediastinum geometry for a wide range of beam qualities by comparing the results from a pencil-beam-based treatment planning system with the results from Monte Carlo calculations. As expected, the deviations within unit-density volumes are small while deviations in low-density volumes increase with... (More)
- A common limitation in treatment planning systems for photon dose calculation is to ignore the impact on electron transport and photon scatter from patient heterogeneities. The heterogeneity correlation is often based on scaling operations along beam rays as for the method according to Batho or the more novel approach of 1D convolutions along beam paths applied in pencil-beam-based systems. The effects of the limitation have been studied in a mediastinum geometry for a wide range of beam qualities by comparing the results from a pencil-beam-based treatment planning system with the results from Monte Carlo calculations. As expected, the deviations within unit-density volumes are small while deviations in low-density volumes increase with increasing beam energy from approximately 3% for 4 MV to 14% for 18 MV x-rays as a result of increased electron disequilibrium. (Less)
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- Knöös, Tommy LU ; Ahnesjö, Anders ; Nilsson, Per LU and Weber, Lars LU
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- 1995
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- Contribution to journal
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- published
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- Physics in Medicine and Biology
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- 40
- issue
- 9
- pages
- 1411 - 1420
- publisher
- IOP Publishing
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- pmid:8532755
- scopus:0029064833
- ISSN
- 1361-6560
- DOI
- 10.1088/0031-9155/40/9/002
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- English
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