IMRT verification with a camera-based electronic portal imaging system.

An evaluation of the capabilities of a commercially available camera-based electronic portal imaging system for intensity-modulated radiotherapy verification is presented. Two modifications to the system are demonstrated which use a novel method to tag each image acquired with the delivered dose measured by the linac monitor chamber and reduce optical cross-talk in the imager. A detailed performance assessment is presented, including measurements of the optical decay characteristics of the system. The overall geometric accuracy of the system is determined to be +/-2.0 mm, with a dosimetric accuracy of +/-1.25 MU. Finally a clinical breast IMRT treatment, delivered by dynamic multileaf collimation, is successfully verified both by tracking the position of each leaf during beam delivery and recording the integrated intensity observed over the entire beam.

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