This work is mainly focused on developing a methodology to obtain portal dosimetry with an amorphous silicon electronic portal image device (EPID) by means of Monte Carlo simulations and experimental measures. According to this, pixel intensity values of portal images have been compared with dose measured from an ionization chamber and dose obtained from Monte Carlo simulations. To that, several images were acquired with the Elekta iView GT EPID using an attenuator phantom slab (10 cm thickness of solid water) and a 6 MV photon energy beam with different monitor units. The average pixel value in a region of interest (ROI) centered at the beam selecting each image was extracted and compared to dose measures performed with the ionization chamber. These parameters were found to be linearly correlated with the number of monitor units (MU). Since, MCNP5 simulations allow calculating the deposited dose in the ROI within the phosphor layer of the EPID model, we can compare the portal dose with the simulated transit dose in order to perform a treatment control.
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