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Radiation dose verification using real tissue phantom in modern radiotherapy techniques
Om Prakash Gurjar1, SP Mishra2, Virendra Bhandari3, Pankaj Pathak3, Prapti Patel3, Garima Shrivastav4
1 Department of Physics, Mewar University, Chittorgarh, Rajasthan; Roentgen-SAIMS Radiation Oncology Centre, Sri Aurobindo Institute of Medical Sciences, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
2 Department of Radiotherapy, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India
3 Roentgen-SAIMS Radiation Oncology Centre, Sri Aurobindo Institute of Medical Sciences, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
4 Department of Physics, Mewar University, Chittorgarh, Rajasthan; Department of Radiotherapy, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India
Correspondence Address:
Om Prakash Gurjar
(Ph. D. Scholar - Mewar University), Asstt. Professor (Medical Physics) cum RSO (III) Roentgen-SAIMS Radiation Oncology Centre, Sri Aurobindo Institute of Medical Sciences, Indore - 453 111, Madhya Pradesh
India
 Source of Support: Equipment support from Roentgen Oncologic
Solutions Pvt. Ltd, and Sri Aurobindo Institute of Medical Sciences,
Indore, India, Declaration: This paper will be presented for best paper
award in Indian cancer congress (ICC).2013 to be held at New Delhi
from 20th.24th Nov., 2013, We have informed to ICC scientific committee
not to publish in their journal, and also have informed them that this
paper has been accepted in JMP,, Conflict of Interest: None  | Check |
DOI: 10.4103/0971-6203.125504
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In vitro dosimetric verification prior to patient treatment has a key role in accurate and precision radiotherapy treatment delivery. Most of commercially available dosimetric phantoms have almost homogeneous density throughout their volume, while real interior of patient body has variable and varying densities inside. In this study an attempt has been made to verify the physical dosimetry in actual human body scenario by using goat head as "head phantom" and goat meat as "tissue phantom". The mean percentage variation between planned and measured doses was found to be 2.48 (standard deviation (SD): 0.74), 2.36 (SD: 0.77), 3.62 (SD: 1.05), and 3.31 (SD: 0.78) for three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3DCRT) (head phantom), intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT; head phantom), 3DCRT (tissue phantom), and IMRT (tissue phantom), respectively. Although percentage variations in case of head phantom were within tolerance limit (< ± 3%), but still it is higher than the results obtained by using commercially available phantoms. And the percentage variations in most of cases of tissue phantom were out of tolerance limit. On the basis of these preliminary results it is logical and rational to develop radiation dosimetry methods based on real human body and also to develop an artificial phantom which should truly represent the interior of human body. |
