A real-time skin dose tracking system for biplane neuro-interventional procedures

Vijay K. Rana; Stephen R. Rudin; Daniel R. Bednarek

doi:10.1117/12.2081700

18 March 2015 A real-time skin dose tracking system for biplane neuro-interventional procedures

Vijay K. Rana, Stephen R. Rudin, Daniel R. Bednarek

Proceedings Volume 9412, Medical Imaging 2015: Physics of Medical Imaging; 941230 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2081700
Event: SPIE Medical Imaging, 2015, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

A biplane dose-tracking system (Biplane-DTS) that provides a real-time display of the skin-dose distribution on a 3D-patient graphic during neuro-interventional fluoroscopic procedures was developed. Biplane-DTS calculates patient skin dose using geometry and exposure information for the two gantries of the imaging system acquired from the digital system bus. The dose is calculated for individual points on the patient graphic surface for each exposure pulse and cumulative dose for both x-ray tubes is displayed as color maps on a split screen showing frontal and lateral projections of a 3D-humanoid graphic. Overall peak skin dose (PSD), FOV-PSD and current dose rates for the two gantries are also displayed. Biplane- TS uses calibration files of mR/mAs for the frontal and lateral tubes measured with and without the table in the beam at the entrance surface of a 20 cm thick PMMA phantom placed 15 cm tube-side of the isocenter. For neuro-imaging, conversion factors are applied as a function of entrance field area to scale the calculated dose to that measured with a Phantom Laboratory head phantom which contains a human skull to account for differences in backscatter between PMMA and the human head. The software incorporates inverse-square correction to each point on the skin and corrects for angulation of the beam through the table. Dose calculated by Biplane DTS and values measured by a 6-cc ionization chamber placed on the head phantom at multiple points agree within a range of -3% to +7% with a standard deviation for all points of less than 3%.

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Vijay K. Rana, Stephen R. Rudin, and Daniel R. Bednarek "A real-time skin dose tracking system for biplane neuro-interventional procedures", Proc. SPIE 9412, Medical Imaging 2015: Physics of Medical Imaging, 941230 (18 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2081700

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