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In this paper we present commissioning testing and evaluation of the use of Varian’s portal dosimetry in the quality assurance of intensity-modulated radiotherapy. The commissioning tests were performed to characterize the portal dosimetry in terms dosimetric and to assess the its possible application in radiotherapy. These tests demonstrated that portal dosimetry has all the characteristics to be used for dosimetry in radiotherapy such as linear response with dose, the independence of dose rate, reproducibility, and others. The evaluation of the use of portal dosimetry in quality control of IMRT was performed in two steps: assessing the ability of the device to detect errors deliberately introduced in simple and complex fluences. Errors of known magnitude were introduced in certain areas of fluences and was carried out quality control of these fluences with portal dosimetry and three dosimetric systems: ionization chamber, film and array of ionization chambers. The data obtained from the portal were compared with those of other devices and all were able to identify errors introduced satisfactorily, the values, normalized to the original fluence, obtained with the portal dosimetry were similar to the ionization chamber and the array of ion chambers (seven29) and differing in up to 2% of the values obtained with the films. The fluences measured with the portal dosimetry were evaluated both quantitatively and qualitatively. The index of the gamma function provided by software analysis of portal dosimetry showed no defined rules of behavior in relation to the errors introduced and for this reason the qualitative analysis has proved indispensable in cases evaluated.

Avaliação do dispositivo eletrônico de imagem portal "Portal Dosimetry" no controle de qualidade de radioterapia de intensidade modulada