Jeerawat Pimthong.. Commissioning and Validation of Compass System for VMAT patient specific quality assurance. Master's Degree(Medical Physics). Mahidol University. Mahidol University Library and Knowledge Center. : Mahidol University, 2016.
Commissioning and Validation of Compass System for VMAT patient specific quality assurance
Abstract:
The objective of this study is to commission and validate the performance of COMPASS system for dose verification of VMAT technique. The COMPASS system is composed of an array of ionization detectors (MatriXX) mounted to the gantry using a custom holder and software for the analysis and visualization of QA results. First, we commissioned the COMPASS that required reformatting data for both 6 MV and 10 MV photon data from a Varian Clinac iX machine into a software acceptable beam model. Second, we validated the COMPASS software for basic and advanced clinical application. For the basic application study, the simple open field in various field sizes were validated in homogeneous phantom. And the validation with VMAT patient plans, the fifteen prostate and fifteen nasopharyngeal cancer VMAT plans were chosen to study. The doses and dose-volume histograms (DVHs) were computed using Collapsed Cone Convolution (CCC) Algorithm and they were compared with Eclipse TPS calculated plans using Analytical Anisotropic Algorithm (AAA) and also the treatment plans were measured by the MatriXX. The doses and DVHs reconstructed from the fluence measurements were compared to the Eclipse calculated plans. The DVHs were analyzed by the definition D98%, D95%, D50%, D2% and average dose that according to dose specified in ICRU 83. The results for basic application study showed that the calculated dose difference between Eclipse and COMPASS software was less than 0.5%. In addition, the Eclipse calculated dose differed from the measured and reconstructed dose from COMPASS less than 2.5%. The advanced clinical application study for the prostate and nasopharyngeal cancer VMAT plans, the comparison of DVHs between Eclipse calculated dose and COMPASS computed dose for prostate VMAT plans, the results showed that the mean of percentage difference was -0.13 ± 0.23, -0.08 ± 0.17, -0.11 ± 0.11, -0.01 ± 0.21 and 0.09 ± 0.11, respectively. For the nasopharyngeal VMAT plans, the results showed that the mean of percentage difference was -1.85 ± 0.50, -1.87 ± 0.39, - 1.33 ± 0.98, -0.61 ± 0.65 and -1.55 ± 0.24, respectively. Furthermore, the comparison of DVHs between Eclipse calculated dose and COMPASS reconstructed dose software was also evaluated. The results from the prostate VMAT plans, showed that the mean of percentage difference was -2.55 ± 0.53, -1.65 ± 0.41, -0.03 ± 0.25, 0.73 ± 0.33 and -0.17 ± 0.26, respectively. And for the nasopharyngeal VMAT plans, the results showed that the mean of percentage difference was -2.87 ± 0.64, -2.35 ± 0.51, -1.23 ± 0.43, 0.57 ± 0.83 and -1.17 ± 0.42, respectively. So all the results showed that the percent difference between Eclipse calculated and COMPASS computed DVHs was less than 2%. And the percent difference between Eclipse calculated and COMPASS measured dose was less than 3% which is acceptable. Taken all together, it indicated that using COMPASS QA system along with Matrix Detector (IBA dosimetry) can be an effective tool for 3D dose pre-treatment verification of VMAT plans in the patient anatomy when compared to TPS calculation.