Table 6.
Modality | Dose at midbody (cGy) | Time (min)∗ | Available examples& |
---|---|---|---|
Ultrasound | 0 | 2-3 | BATCAM, Clarity |
Plain kV† | 0.1–0.6 | 0.1–3 | Cyberknife, ExacTrac |
Plain MV† | 1–10 | 0.1–3 | Various EPID and portal devices |
kV CBCT‡ | 2-3 | 2–4 | ARTISTE, OBI, XVI |
MV CBCT | 5–15 | 2-3 | MVision |
kV FBCT§ | 0.8–2.8 | 15 | CTVision, EXaCT |
MV FBCT | 1.5–3 | 2-3 | Tomotherapy |
FBCT: fan-beam computed tomography scanning.
*excludes image interpretation and action on observations.
&BATCAM, Best nomos, Pittsburgh, PA; Clarity and XVI, Elekta, Stockholm, Sweden; Cyberknife and Tomotherapy, Accuray, Sunnyvale, CA; EXaCT, ExacTrac, and OBI, Varian Medical Systems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA; ARTISTE, CTVision, and MVision, Siemens AG, Erlangen, Germany.
†For 2 incidences.
‡Full soft-tissue scan, 360°.
§involves couch rotation and CT translation because CT scanning is not on linac gantry.