- Title
- An improved Monte-Carlo model of the varian EPID separating support arm and rear-housing backscatter
- Creator
- Monville, M. E.; Kuncic, Z.; Greer, P. B.
- Relation
- 17th International Conference on the Use of Computers in Radiation Therapy (ICCR 2013). Proccedings of the 17th International Conference on the Use of Computers in Radiation Therapy (ICCR 2013) (Australasian Coll Phys Scientists and Engineers Med, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA 06-09 May, 2013)
- Relation
- Cancer Council NSW.RG10-03
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/489/1/012012
- Publisher
- Institute of Physics Publishing
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- Previous investigators of EPID dosimetric properties have ascribed the backscatter, that contaminates dosimetric EPID images, to its supporting arm. Accordingly, Monte-Carlo (MC) EPID models have approximated the backscatter signal from the layers under the detector and the robotic support arm using either uniform or non-uniform solid water slabs, or through convolutions with back-scatter kernels. The aim of this work is to improve the existent MC models by measuring and modelling the separate backscatter contributions of the robotic arm and the rear plastic housing of the EPID. The EPID plastic housing is non-uniform with a 11.9 cm wide indented section that runs across the cross-plane direction in the superior half of the EPID which is 1.75 cm closer to the EPID sensitive layer than the rest of the housing. The thickness of the plastic housing is 0.5 cm. Experiments were performed with and without the housing present by removing all components of the EPID from the housing. The robotic support arm was not present for these measurements. A MC model of the linear accelerator and the EPID was modified to include the rear-housing indentation and results compared to the measurement. The rear housing was found to contribute a maximum of 3% additional signal. The rear housing contribution to the image is non-uniform in the in-plane direction with 2% asymmetry across the central 20 cm of an image irradiating the entire detector. The MC model was able to reproduce this non-uniform contribution. The EPID rear housing contributes a non-uniform backscatter component to the EPID image, which has not been previously characterized. This has been incorporated into an improved MC model of the EPID.
- Subject
- EPID; Monte-Carlo EPID models; backscatter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1062551
- Identifier
- uon:17105
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781632667144
- Language
- eng
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