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Article Dans Une Revue Physica Medica Année : 2023

End-to-end quality assurance for stereotactic radiotherapy with Fricke-Xylenol orange-Gelatin gel dosimeter and dual-wavelength cone-beam optical CT readout

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Purpose: The end-to-end (E2E) quality assurance (QA) test is a unique tool for validating the treatment chain undergone by patients in external radiotherapy. It should be conducted in three dimensions (3D) to get accurate results. This study aims to implement these tests with Fricke-Xylenol orange-Gelatin (FXG) gel dosimeter and a newly developed dual-wavelength reading method on the Vista16™ optical Computed Tomography (CT) scanner (ModusQA) for three treatment techniques in stereotactic radiotherapy, on Novalis (Varian) and CyberKnife (Accuray) linear accelerators. Methods: The tests were performed in head phantoms. Gel measurements were compared with planned dose distributions and measured by film and ion chamber measurements by plotting isodose curves and dose profiles, and by conducting a 3D local gamma-index analysis (2%/2mm criteria). Results: Gamma passing rates were higher than 95 %. Point dose differences between treatment planning and gel and ion chamber measurements at the isocenter were less than 2.3 % for both treatments delivered on the Novalis accelerator, while this difference was higher than 4 % for the treatment delivered on the CyberKnife, highlighting a small overdosing of the tumor volume. A good agreement was observed between gel and film dose profiles. Conclusions: This study presents the successful implementation of 3D E2E QA tests for stereotactic radiotherapy with FXG gel dosimetry and a dual-wavelength reading method on an optical CT scanner. This dosimetric method provides 3D absolute dose distributions in the 0.25 – 10 Gy dose range with a high spatial resolution and a dose uncertainty of around 2 % (k=1).
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cea-04563755 , version 1 (30-04-2024)

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Alice Rousseau, Christel Stien, Jean Gouriou, jean-marc bordy, Guillaume Boissonnat, et al.. End-to-end quality assurance for stereotactic radiotherapy with Fricke-Xylenol orange-Gelatin gel dosimeter and dual-wavelength cone-beam optical CT readout. Physica Medica, 2023, 113, 102656 (12 p.). ⟨10.1016/j.ejmp.2023.102656⟩. ⟨cea-04563755⟩
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