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CT扫描器管电压差异对剂量计算的影响

Effects of the difference in tube voltage of the CT scanner on dose calculation

Dong Joo Rhee, Sung-woo Kim, Young Min Moon, Jung Ki Kim, Dong Hyeok Jeong

摘要:

计算机断层成像(CT)测量对象的衰减系数,并将分配给每个体素的值转换为CT编号。在放射治疗中,需要将与线性衰减系数成正比的CT数转换为电子密度,用于计算癌症治疗的辐射剂量。然而,如果不将特定的CT数应用于电子密度转换曲线而施加各种管电压来拍摄患者CT图像,则剂量计算的准确性将得不到保证。在这项研究中,不同材料的CT值的变化,由于管电压的变化进行了论证,并分析了剂量计算误差的百分比深度剂量(PDD)和临床病例。当对80 kVp和140 kVp图像的电子密度转换曲线应用相同的CT数时,TPS剂量计算和蒙特卡罗模拟的PDD最大剂量差异分别为1.3%和1.1%。在临床病例中,将80 kVp和140 kVp的不同CT数-电子密度转换曲线应用于同一图像,平均、最大和最小剂量的最大差异在体模中心区域分别为1.1%、1.2%和1.0%,在体模的外围区域分别为0.8%。

英文摘要:

Computed Tomography (CT) measures the attenuation coefficient of an object and converts the value assigned to each voxel into a CT number. In radiation therapy, CT number, which is directly proportional to the linear attenuation coefficient, is required to be converted to electron density for radiation dose calculation for cancer treatment. However, if various tube voltages were applied to take the patient CT image without applying the specific CT number to electron density conversion curve, the accuracy of dose calculation would be unassured. In this study, changes in CT numbers for different materials due to change in tube voltage were demonstrated and the dose calculation errors in percentage depth dose (PDD) and a clinical case were analyzed. The maximum dose difference in PDD from TPS dose calculation and Monte Carlo simulation were 1.3 % and 1.1 % respectively when applying the same CT number to electron density conversion curve to the 80 kVp and 140 kVp images. In the clinical case, the different CT number to electron density conversion curves from 80 kVp and 140 kVp were applied to the same image and the maximum differences in mean, maximum, and minimum doses were 1.1 %, 1.2 %, 1.0 % respectively at the central region of the phantom and 0.6 %, 0.9 %, 0.8 % respectively at the peripheral region of the phantom.

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