Impact of small MU/segment and dose rate on delivery accuracy of volumetric-modulated arc therapy (VMAT).

ABSTRACT: Volumetric-modulated arc therapy (VMAT) plans may require more control points (or segments) than some of fixed-beam IMRT plans that are created with a limited number of segments. Increasing number of control points in a VMAT plan for a given prescription dose could create a large portion of the total number of segments with small number monitor units (MUs) per segment. The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of the small number MU/segment on the delivery accuracy of VMAT delivered with various dose rates. Ten patient datasets were planned for hippocampus sparing for whole brain irradiation. For each dataset, two VMAT plans were created with maximum dose rates of 600 MU/min (the maximum field size of 21 × 40 cm2) and 1000 MU/min (the maximum field size of 15 × 15 cm2) for a d

SUBMITTER: Huang L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5690906 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature