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Log file based Monte Carlo calculations for proton pencil beam scanning therapy.
Physics in Medicine and Biology 2018 December 13
Patient specific quality assurance is crucial to guarantee safety in proton pencil beam scanning. In current clinical practice, this requires extensive, time consuming measurements. Additionally, these measurements do not consider the influence of density heterogeneities in the patient and are insensitive to delivery errors. In this work, we investigate the use of log file based Monte Carlo calculations for dose reconstructions in the patient CT, which takes the combined influence of calculational and delivery errors into account. For one example field, 86%/90% of the voxels agree within ± 3% when taking either calculational or delivery uncertainties into account (analytical vs Monte Carlo calculation/Monte Carlo from planned vs Monte Carlo from log file). 78% agree when considering both uncertainties simultaneously (nominal field versus Monte Carlo from log files). We then show the application of the log file based Monte Carlo calculations as a patient specific quality assurance tool for a set of five patients (16 fields) treated for different indications. For all fields, absolute dose scaling factors based on the log file Monte Carlo agree within ± 3% to the measurement based absolute dose scaling. Relative comparison shows that more than 90% of the voxels agree within ± 5% between the analytical calculated plan and the Monte Carlo based on log files. The log file based Monte Carlo approach is an end-to-end test incorporating all requirements of patient specific quality assurance. It has the potential to reduce the workload and therefore to increase the patient throughput, while simultaneously enabling more accurate dose verification directly in the patient geometry.
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