title: Commissioning and quality assurance of the X-ray volume Imaging system of an image-guided radiotherapy capable linear accelerator.
abstract: An Image-Guided Radiotherapy-capable linear accelerator (Elekta Synergy) was installed at our hospital, which is equipped with a kV x-ray volume imaging (XVI) system and electronic portal imaging device (iViewGT). The objective of this presentation is to describe the results of commissioning measurements carried out on the XVI facility to verify the manufacturer's specifications and also to evolve a QA schedule which can be used to test its performance routinely.The QA program consists of a series of tests (safety features, geometric accuracy, and image quality). These tests were found to be useful to assess the performance of the XVI system and also proved that XVI system is very suitable for image-guided high-precision radiation therapy.
authors.affiliation: Indo-American Cancer Institute and Research Center, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: K R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Muralidhar
authors.forename: P Narayana
authors.initials: PN
authors.lastname: Murthy
authors.forename: Rajneesh
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kumar