A parametric fitting technique for rapid determination of a skin-dose correction factor for angle of beam incidence during image-guided endovascular procedures
Abstract
Skin dose is dependent on the incident beam angle and corrections are needed for accurate estimation of the risk of deterministic effects of the skin. To obtain the angular correction factors (ACF's), EGSnrc Monte Carlo (MC) software was used to calculate the skin dose as a function of incident x-ray beam angle at the center of the field for beam energies from 60 to 120 kVp, field sizes from 5 to 15 cm, and thicknesses of Cu beam filters from 0.2 to 0.5 mm. All MC simulations used 3×1010 incident photons. The dose was averaged over a 1 mm depth on the entrance surface of a 40×40 cm by 20 cm thick water phantom and was then normalized to the incident primary dose which was calculated using NIST mass energy absorption coefficients and by integrating over the beam energy spectrum. The Matlab tool, 'cftool', was used to fit these normalized dose values to power law equations as a function of incident beam angle, with coefficients that were fit to polynomials as a function of kVp. Separate fitting was done for different beam sizes and beam filters. The skin dose values calculated using the ACF determined from the fitted functional formulas agreed with that calculated by MC with a mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) less than 3% over the entire range of incident angles and kVp values. This fitting technique allows an ACF to be quickly determined for accurate skin dose calculation.
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