Ionization chamber array for patient specific VMAT, Tomotherapy and IMRT QA

The evaluation between measured and calculated dose is essential in the patient specific quality assurance procedures for intensity modulated radiation therapy. The high complexity of volumetric arc radiotherapy, Tomotherpay and intensity modulated radiation therapy deliveries attributed to the dynamic and synchronization requirements of such techniques require new methods and potentially new tools for the quality assurance of such techniques. Studies evaluating the dosimetric performance of EDR2 film and a 2D ionization chamber array quality assurance device have been performed in our institution. Our results showed that differences between the detector systems are small. The respective gamma index histograms showed that when 3% dose difference and 3mm distance to agreement are used, more than 90% of the evaluated points were within the tolerance criteria.