Mechanical Characterization and Validation of the Dynamic Collimation System Prototype for Proton Radiotherapy
Journal of Medical Devices, Transactions of the ASME, ISSN: 1932-619X, Vol: 16, Issue: 2, Page: 021013
2022
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Article Description
Radiation therapy is integral to cancer treatments for more than half of patients. Pencil beam scanning (PBS) proton therapy is the latest radiation therapy technology that uses a beam of protons that are magnetically steered and delivered to the tumor. One of the limiting factors of PBS accuracy is the beam cross-sectional size, similar to how a painter is only as accurate as the size of their brush allows. To address this, collimators can be used to shape the beam along the tumor edge to minimize the dose spread outside of the tumor. Under development is a dynamic collimation system (DCS) that uses two pairs of nickel trimmers that collimate the beam at the tumor periphery, limiting dose from spilling into healthy tissue. Herein, we establish the dosimetric and mechanical acceptance criteria for the DCS based on a functioning prototype and Monte Carlo methods, characterize the mechanical accuracy of the prototype, and validate that the acceptance criteria are met. From Monte Carlo simulations, we found that the trimmers must be positioned within 60.5 mm and 61.0 deg for the dose distributions to pass our gamma analysis. We characterized the trimmer positioners at jerk values up to 400 m/s and validated their accuracy to 50 lm. We measured and validated the rotational trimmer accuracy to 60.5 deg with a FARO ScanArm. Lastly, we calculated time penalties associated with the DCS and found that the additional time required to treat one field using the DCS varied from 25-52 s.
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http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85144602309&origin=inward; http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.4053722; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35284033; https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/medicaldevices/article/16/2/021013/1134886/Mechanical-Characterization-and-Validation-of-the
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