A comparative study of identical VMAT plans with and without jaw tracking technique.

ABSTRACT: The unwanted radiation transmission through the multileaf collimators could be reduced by the jaw tracking technique which is commercially available on Varian TrueBeam accelerators. On the basis of identical plans, this study aims to investigate the dosimetric impact of jaw tracking on the volumetric-modulated arc therapy (VMAT) plans. Using Eclipse treatment planning system (TPS), 40 jaw-tracking VMAT plans with various tumor volumes and shapes were optimized. Fixed jaw plans were created by editing the jaw coordinates of the jaw-tracking plans while other parameters were identical. The deliverability of this artificial modification was verified using COMPASS system via three-dimentional gamma analysis between the measurement-based reconstruction and the TPS-calculated dose distribution.

SUBMITTER: Wu H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5874095 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature