Background: Step and shoot (SS) IMRT treatment technique is one of the modern planning techniques used in radiotherapy. It conforms to the dose to the possible minimum as to the OARs. Dosimetric error calculations used to estimate the sensitivity of reading and the dose difference between TPS and phantom detector. Monitor units (MUs) are measured by monitor chambers, which are ionization chambers that measure the dose delivered by a beam and are built into the treatment head of radiotherapy linear accelerators. Material and Method: Thirty cases of two regions (25 HN and 5 pelvic cases) performed with SS IMRT using MONACO5.1 Treatment Planning System (TPS). Then the QA tested using OCTAVIUS 4D-1500 phantom in Baghdad Center for Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine, Baghdad, Iraq. Gamma index and %GP calculated index by comparing the actual QA (using Octavius) with virtual QA (using MONACO TPS). Dosimetric error percentage with global and local %GP and the total Monitor Unit (MU) correlation with global and local %GP were measured. Results: The %GP was ?95%, where 20% for local %GP for all cases and 73.3 % for global passing rate. A significant correlation found between the %DEs resulted in the %GP for both local and global. There was a correlation between the total MUs for global %GP. For a local %GP, it was statistically not correlated with MUs. Conclusion: There is a correlation found between dosimetric error percentage (%DE) and %GP for both local and global. There is a correlation between the total Monitor Unit (MU) and global %GP but not with local.
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November 2020
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