Purpose: The aim of this study is to validate the RayStation Monte Carlo (MC) dose algorithm using animal tissue neck phantoms and a water breast phantom.
Methods: Three anthropomorphic phantoms were used in a clinical setting to test the RayStation MC dose algorithm. We used two real animal necks that were cut to a workable shape while frozen and then thawed before being CT scanned. Secondly, we made a patient breast phantom using a breast prosthesis filled with water and placed on a flat surface. Dose distributions in the animal and breast phantoms were measured using the MatriXX PT device.
Results: The measured doses to the neck and breast phantoms compared exceptionally well with doses calculated by the analytical pencil beam (APB) and MC algorithms. The comparisons between APB and MC dose calculations and MatriXX PT measurements yielded an average depth difference for best gamma agreement of <1 mm for the neck phantoms. For the breast phantom better average gamma pass rates between measured and calculated dose distributions were observed for the MC than for the APB algorithms.
Conclusions: The MC dose calculations are more accurate than the APB calculations for the static phantoms conditions we evaluated, especially in areas where significant inhomogeneous interfaces are traversed by the beam.
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