Inclusion of the treatment couch in portal dose image prediction for high precision EPID dosimetry.

Purpose: When comparing predicted portal dose images (PDIs) to PDIs acquired by an EPID during treatment delivery, differences are often observed. These differences may be partially attributed to beam attenuation by parts of the treatment couch not taken into account in the PDI prediction. In order to improve the agreement, a model for the treatment couch was derived and included in the PDI prediction.

Evaluation of the 'dose of the day' for IMRT prostate cancer patients derived from portal dose measurements and cone-beam CT.

Purpose: High geometrical and dosimetrical accuracies are required for radiotherapy treatments where IMRT is applied in combination with narrow treatment margins in order to minimize dose delivery to normal tissues. As an overall check, we implemented a method for reconstruction of the actually delivered 3D dose distribution to the patient during a treatment fraction, i.e.

Portal dose image prediction for in vivo treatment verification completely based on EPID measurements.

A high dosimetric accuracy is required for radiotherapy treatments where IMRT in combination with narrow treatment margins is applied to achieve optimally conformal dose distributions. In order to routinely verify the in vivo fluence delivery (i.e.