MU-Tomo: Independent dose validation software for helical tomotherapy

Nikos Papanikolaou; Weihong He; A. Vazquez Q. Luis; Alonso Gutierrez; Sotirios Stathakis; Hassaan Alkhatib; Chengyu Shi

doi:10.4172/1948-5956.1000040

MU-Tomo: Independent dose validation software for helical tomotherapy

Nikos Papanikolaou, Weihong He, A. Vazquez Q. Luis, Alonso Gutierrez, Sotirios Stathakis, Hassaan Alkhatib, Chengyu Shi

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A software program, MU-Tomo, has been developed to perform an independent point dose calculation and compare it to the dose calculated from the TomoTherapy (TomoTherapy, Inc., Madison, WI) treatment planning system (TPS). Input parameters required for this software include: archived tomotherapy patient files, QA plan image coordinates, tomotherapy-calculated point dose and machine-specifi c dosimetric parameters such as the off-axis ratios (OARx and OARy), tissue phantom ratios (TPR) and output functions (Scp). The software was validated on four phantom models and fifty tomotherapy patient plans representing various anatomical sites. Our results indicate that MU-Tomo can perform in a few seconds an independent dose calculation accurately and provide a secondary check for a point dose validation of helical tomotherapy plans.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	145-152
Number of pages	8
Journal	Journal of Cancer Science and Therapy
Volume	2
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4172/1948-5956.1000040
State	Published - 2010

Keywords

Dose verification
Independent dose calculation
Second check
TomoTherapy

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Oncology
Cancer Research

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