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SU‐FF‐T‐335: MU Variation for Total Body Irradiation (TBI)
Author(s) -
Zhu T,
Zhou X,
Glatstein E
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
medical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.473
H-Index - 180
eISSN - 2473-4209
pISSN - 0094-2405
DOI - 10.1118/1.2241257
Subject(s) - field size , linear particle accelerator , nuclear medicine , monitor unit , irradiation , standard deviation , physics , absolute deviation , photon , dosimetry , mathematics , optics , statistics , medicine , beam (structure) , nuclear physics
Purpose: To determine a simplified formula to calculate monitor unit (MU) for total body irradiation (TBI) for 6 MV photon beams. Method and Materials: Patient data were accumulated for TBI with 6 MV photon beams between January 2002 and February 2006. The dependence of MU on SAD, patient thickness, and field sizes were examined for four different linear accelerator types. Results: MU depends strongly on SAD but is almost independent of the linear accelerator types. Among the 47 patients examined, the depth varied between 6.5 and 21.5 cm (mean and s.d.11.5 ± 3.6 cm), the field sizes varied between 20 and 50 cm (mean and s.d.35 ± 8 cm) and SAD varied between 492 and 591 cm. MU is linearly proportional to the thickness of patient separation and, to a lesser extent, linearly dependent on the equivalent patient field size. To deliver 200 cGy, the mean and standard deviation of MU*(100/SAD) 2 is 113 ± 11 for all patients examined. Conclusion: To deliver 200 cGy with 6 MV photon beams, MU can be determined using a formula MU*(100/SAD) 2 = 2.63 d + 82.6 to within an accuracy of 5.7% for most of patients examined. To increase the accuracy further, requires taking into account the field size dependence.

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