Hong Qi Tan, Calvin Wei Yang Koh, Kah Seng Lew, Ping Lin Yeap, Clifford Ghee Ann Chua, James Kuan Huei Lee, Yun Ming Wong, Andrew Wibawa, Zubin Master, James Cheow Lei Lee, Sung Yong Park
INTRODUCTION: Daily quality assurance is an integral part of a radiotherapy workflow to ensure the dose is delivered safely and accurately to the patient. It is performed before the first treatment of the day and needs to be time and cost efficient for a multiple gantries proton center. In this study, we introduced an efficient method to perform QA for output constancy, range verification, spot positioning accuracy and imaging and proton beam isocenter coincidence with DailyQA3. METHODS: A stepped acrylic block of specific dimensions is fabricated and placed on top of the DailyQA3 device...
April 1, 2024: Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics