Tolerance limits and methodologies for IMRT measurement‐based verification QA: Recommendations of AAPM Task Group No. 218

M Miften, A Olch, D Mihailidis, J Moran… - Medical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Patient‐specific IMRT QA measurements are important components of processes
designed to identify discrepancies between calculated and delivered radiation doses …

AAPM Task Group Report 307: use of EPIDs for patient‐specific IMRT and VMAT QA

N Dogan, BJ Mijnheer, K Padgett… - Medical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Electronic portal imaging devices (EPIDs) have been widely utilized for patient‐
specific quality assurance (PSQA) and their use for transit dosimetry applications is …

Evaluating IMRT and VMAT dose accuracy: practical examples of failure to detect systematic errors when applying a commonly used metric and action levels

BE Nelms, MF Chan, G Jarry, M Lemire… - Medical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: This study (1) examines a variety of real‐world cases where systematic errors were
not detected by widely accepted methods for IMRT/VMAT dosimetric accuracy evaluation …

Patient specific 3D printed phantom for IMRT quality assurance

ED Ehler, BM Barney, PD Higgins… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
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A method for a priori estimation of best feasible DVH for organs‐at‐risk: Validation for head and neck VMAT planning

S Ahmed, B Nelms, D Gintz, J Caudell… - Medical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Despite improvements in optimization and automation algorithms, the quality of
radiation treatment plans still varies dramatically. A tool that allows a priori estimation of the …

Experimentally studied dynamic dose interplay does not meaningfully affect target dose in VMAT SBRT lung treatments

C Stambaugh, BE Nelms, T Dilling, C Stevens… - Medical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The effects of respiratory motion on the tumor dose can be divided into the gradient
and interplay effects. While the interplay effect is likely to average out over a large number of …

Patient-specific quality assurance for the delivery of 60Co intensity modulated radiation therapy subject to a 0.35-T lateral magnetic field

HH Li, VL Rodriguez, OL Green, Y Hu… - International Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Purpose This work describes a patient-specific dosimetry quality assurance (QA) program
for intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) using ViewRay, the first commercial …

Correlation between gamma index passing rate and clinical dosimetric difference for pre-treatment 2D and 3D volumetric modulated arc therapy dosimetric verification

X Jin, H Yan, C Han, Y Zhou, J Yi… - The British Journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Objective: To investigate comparatively the percentage gamma passing rate (% GP) of two-
dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) pre-treatment volumetric modulated arc …

Initial clinical experience with ArcCHECK for IMRT/VMAT QA

M Aristophanous, Y Suh, PC Chi… - Journal of applied …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Many devices designed for the purpose of performing patient‐specific IMRT/VMAT QA are
commercially available. In this work we report our experience and initial clinical results with …

Time dependent pre-treatment EPID dosimetry for standard and FFF VMAT

M Podesta, SM Nijsten, LCGG Persoon… - Physics in Medicine …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Methods to calibrate Megavoltage electronic portal imaging devices (EPIDs) for dosimetry
have been previously documented for dynamic treatments such as intensity modulated …