Application and challenges of statistical process control in radiation therapy quality assurance

Q Xiao, G Li - International Journal of Radiation Oncology* Biology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Quality assurance (QA) is important for ensuring precision in radiation therapy. The
complexity and resource-intensive nature of QA has increased with the continual evolution …

Moving towards process-based radiotherapy quality assurance using statistical process control

V Raveendran, PT Anjana, S Bhasi, CP Ranjith… - Physica Medica, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Monitoring Radiotherapy Quality Assurance (QA) using Statistical Process Control
(SPC) methods has gained wide acceptance. The significance of understanding the SPC …

[HTML][HTML] Guaranteed performance of individual control chart used in gamma passing rate-based patient-specific quality assurance

G Li, Q Xiao, G Dai, Q Wang, L Bai, X Zhang, X Zhang… - Physica medica, 2023 - Elsevier
Purpose To assess the effect of sampling variability on the performance of individual charts
(I-charts) for PSQA and provide a robust and reliable method for unknown PSQA processes …

Use of improved memory type control charts for monitoring cancer patients recovery time censored data

SMM Raza, MH Sial, N Hassan, GT Mekiso… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Control charts are a statistical approach for monitoring cancer data that can assist discover
patterns, trends, and unusual deviations in cancer-related data across time. To detect …

Initial clinical evaluation of a novel combined biometric, radio-frequency identification, and surface imaging system

H Zhao, C Haacke, V Sarkar, A Paxton, YJ Huang… - Physica Medica, 2023 - Elsevier
Purpose To evaluate and characterize the overall clinical functionality and workflow of the
newly released Varian Identify system (version 2.3). Methods Three technologies included in …

SurVolT: Surface to Volume conversion Tool. A proof of concept

A Gorecki, V Sorgato, C Mazzara, S Clément, D Fric… - Physica Medica, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Purpose: To develop SurVolT, a conversion tool able to apply volumetric changes
to DICOM Computed Tomography (CT) data using daily surface (obj) data acquired with …

Comparison of patient setup accuracy for optical surface-guided and X-ray-guided imaging with respect to the impact on intracranial stereotactic radiotherapy

M Schöpe, J Sahlmann, S Jaschik, A Findeisen… - Strahlentherapie und …, 2024 - Springer
Purpose The objective of this work is to estimate the patient positioning accuracy of a
surface-guided radiation therapy (SGRT) system using an optical surface scanner compared …

Quality management of head and neck patient treatments using statistical process control techniques

MJ Sandford, JG Steel, JR Goodworth… - Physical and Engineering …, 2024 - Springer
The treatment, planning, simulation, and setup of radiotherapy patients contain many
processes subject to errors involving both staff and equipment. Cone-beam-CT (CBCT) …

[PDF][PDF] Quality Assurance Program for Surface-guided Radiation Therapy: A Review of Guidelines

F BILTEKIN, G ÖZYIĞIT - TURKISH JOURNAL OF ONCOLOGY, 2023 - onkder.org
Surface-guided radiation therapy (SGRT) has gained wide popularity across radiation
oncology community due to its non-radiographic characteristic and real-time motion …

[PDF][PDF] Performance Evaluation of Virtual Laser-Based Surface-Guided Radiation Therapy Setup System Using Humanoid Head Phantom

JW Lee, BM Park, YK Bae, MY Kang, S Hong - iccr2024.org
We aimed to verify patient setup accuracy using a combination of virtual laser-based SGRT
systems (LUNA 3D, LAP, Germany). The experiments were divided into (1) skin-surface …