Multi-slit prompt-gamma camera for locating of distal dose falloff in proton therapyopen access
- Authors
- Park, Jong Hoon; Kim, Sung Hun; Ku, Youngmo; Kim, Chan Hyeong; Lee, Han Rim; Jeong, Jong Hwi; Lee, Se Byeong; Shin, Dong Ho
- Issue Date
- Aug-2019
- Publisher
- KOREAN NUCLEAR SOC
- Keywords
- Proton therapy; Prompt gamma; Beam range verification; Distal dose falloff
- Citation
- NUCLEAR ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, v.51, no.5, pp.1406 - 1416
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
KCI
- Journal Title
- NUCLEAR ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
- Volume
- 51
- Number
- 5
- Start Page
- 1406
- End Page
- 1416
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hanyang/handle/2021.sw.hanyang/13240
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.net.2019.03.008
- ISSN
- 1738-5733
- Abstract
- In this research, a multi-slit prompt-gamma camera was developed to locate the distal dose falloff of the proton beam spots in spot scanning proton therapy. To see the performance of the developed camera, therapeutic proton beams were delivered to a solid plate phantom and then the prompt gammas from the phantom were measured using the camera. Our results show that the camera locates the 90% distal dose falloff (= d90%), within about 2-3 mm of error for the spots which are composed 3.8 x 10(8) protons or more. The measured location of d90% is not very sensitive to the irradiation depth of the proton beam (i.e., the depth of proton beam from the phantom surface toward which the camera is located). Considering the number of protons per spot for the most distal spots in typical treatment cases (i.e., 2 Gy dose divided in 2 fields), the camera can locate d90% only for a fraction of the spots depending on the treatment cases. However, the information of those spots is still valuable in that, in the multi-slit prompt-gamma camera, the distal dose falloff of the spots is located solely based on prompt gamma measurement, i.e., not referring to Monte Carlo simulation.
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