'Tongue-and-groove' effect in intensity modulated radiotherapy with static multileaf collimator fields.

نویسندگان

  • W Que
  • J Kung
  • J Dai
چکیده

The 'tongue-and-groove problem' in step-and-shoot delivery of intensity modulated radiotherapy is investigated. A 'tongue-and-groove' index (TGI) is introduced to quantify the 'tongue-and-groove' effect in step-and-shoot delivery. Four different types of leaf sequencing methods are compared. The sliding window method and the reducing level method use the same number of field segments to deliver the same intensity map, but the TGI is much less for the reducing level method. The leaf synchronization method of Van Santvoort and Heijmen fails in step-and-shoot delivery, but a new method inspired by the method of Van Santvoort and Heijmen is shown to eliminate 'tongue-and-groove' underdosage completely.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Physics in medicine and biology

دوره 49 3  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2004