title: Assessment of patient organ doses and effective doses using the VIP-Man adult male phantom for selected cone-beam CT imaging procedures during image guided radiation therapy.
abstract: A Monte Carlo based computational procedure for determining organ doses and effective doses has been described for two procedures used in newly developed image-guided radiation treatment: kilovoltage cone-beam computed tomography (kV CBCT) and mega-voltage computed tomography (MV CBCT). A whole-body patient computational phantom, VIP-Man phantom, is employed for Monte Carlo dose calculations. Results indicate that the thyroid dose is always the highest in head and neck (H&N) scan for both kV and MV CBCT, and the bladder dose is the highest in prostate scan for both kV and MV CBCT. For the VIP-Man phantom, it has been found that the effective dose for kV CBCT (assuming a total exposure of 1350 mAs) is approximately 9.5 mSv for the two anatomical sites, whereas the effective dose for MV CBCT (assuming a total of 6 monitor unit) ranges from 5.10 mSv for the H&N case to 8.39 mSv for the prostate scan. The estimated whole-body effective doses allow different imaging procedures to be compared and evaluated.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA.
authors.forename: Jianwei
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gu
authors.forename: Bryan
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bednarz
authors.forename: X George
authors.initials: XG
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Steve B
authors.initials: SB
authors.lastname: Jiang
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001822:Body Burden; D003198:Computer Simulation; D054893:Cone-Beam Computed Tomography / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008954:Models, Biological; D009010:Monte Carlo Method; D009928:Organ Specificity; D019047:Phantoms, Imaging; D011881:Radiotherapy, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D012062:Relative Biological Effectiveness; D014915:Whole-Body Counting / Q000379:methods*