The 2D-ARRAY seven29 A new way of dosimetric verification of IMRT beams
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The purpose of this application note is to demonstrate the possibilities of the 2D-ARRAY seven29 from PTW in combination with the VeriSoft analysis software as a dosimetric verification tool of clinical IMRT fields. For this demonstration, the Varian IMRT system is used, which consists of the IMRT treatment planning system Eclipse Helios V7.2.24 and Varian Clinac accelerators, which are equipped with dynamic multileaf collimators. The reader can use this application note in two ways: • as a demonstration of the possibilities of the PTW 2D-ARRAY for fast and accurate absolute 2D dose verifications of complex fluence modulated fields. • as systematic instruction (chapter 5) of the whole verification process for a Varian IMRT system. Users of non-Varian IMRT solutions should be easily able to transfer all verification steps to their IMRT system.
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