SU‐E‐T‐453: A Novel Daily QA System for Robotic Image Guided Radiosurgery with Variable Aperture Collimator

Abstract

Purpose:A novel end‐to‐end system using a CCD camera and a scintillator based phantom that is capable of measuring the beam‐by‐beam delivery accuracy of Robotic Radiosurgery has been developed and reported in our previous work. This work investigates its application to end‐to‐end type daily QA for Robotic Radiosurgery (Cyberknife) with Variable Aperture Collimator (Iris).Methods:The phantom was first scanned with a CT scanner at 0.625 slice thickness and exported to the Cyberknife Muliplan (v4.6) treatment planning system. An isocentric treatment plan was created consisting of ten beams of 25 Monitor Units each using Iris apertures of 7.5, 10, 15, 20, and 25 mm. The plan was delivered six times in two days on the Cyberknife G4 system with fiducial tracking on the four metal fiducials embedded in phantom with re‐positioning between the measurements. The beam vectors (X, Y, Z) are measured and compared with the plan from the machine delivery file (XML file). The Iris apertures (FWHM) were measured from the beam flux map and compared with the commissioning data.Results:The average beam positioning accuracies of the six deliveries are 0.71 ± 0.40 mm, 0.72 ± 0.44 mm, 0.74 ± 0.42 mm, 0.70 ± 0.40 mm, 0.79 ± 0.44 mm and 0.69 ± 0.41 mm respectively. Radiation beam width (FWHM) variations are within ±0.05 mm, and they agree with the commissioning data within 0.22 mm. The delivery time for the plan is about 7 minutes and the results are given instantly.Conclusion:The experimental results agree with stated sub‐millimeter delivery accuracy of Cyberknife system. Beam FWHM variations comply with the 0.2 mm accuracy of the Iris collimator at SAD. The XRV‐100 system has proven to be a powerful tool in performing end‐to‐end type tests for Robotic Image Guided Radiosurgery Daily QA.