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 …

Artificial intelligence in radiotherapy

G Li, X Wu, X Ma - Seminars in Cancer Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Radiotherapy is a discipline closely integrated with computer science. Artificial intelligence
(AI) has developed rapidly over the past few years. With the explosive growth of medical big …

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 …

Quantification of beam complexity in intensity‐modulated radiation therapy treatment plans

W Du, SH Cho, X Zhang, KE Hoffman… - Medical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Excessive complexity in intensity‐modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) plans
increases the dose uncertainty, prolongs the treatment time, and increases the susceptibility …

AAPM MEDICAL PHYSICS PRACTICE GUIDELINE 5. b: Commissioning and QA of treatment planning dose calculations—Megavoltage photon and electron beams

MW Geurts, DJ Jacqmin, LE Jones… - Journal of applied …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) is a nonprofit
professional society whose primary purposes are to advance the science, education, and …

Implementation of the structural SIMilarity (SSIM) index as a quantitative evaluation tool for dose distribution error detection

J Peng, C Shi, E Laugeman, W Hu, Z Zhang… - Medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To apply an imaging metric of the structural SIMilarity (SSIM) index to the
radiotherapy dose verification field and evaluate its capability to reveal the different types of …

Correlation of phantom‐based and log file patient‐specific QA with complexity scores for VMAT

CE Agnew, DM Irvine… - Journal of applied clinical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The motivation for this study was to reduce physics workload relating to patient‐specific
quality assurance (QA). VMAT plan delivery accuracy was determined from analysis of pre …

Independent recalculation outperforms traditional measurement‐based IMRT QA methods in detecting unacceptable plans

SF Kry, MC Glenn, CB Peterson, D Branco… - Medical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To evaluate the performance of an independent recalculation and compare it
against current measurement‐based patient specific intensity‐modulated radiation therapy …

Error detection in intensity-modulated radiation therapy quality assurance using radiomic analysis of gamma distributions

LS Wootton, MJ Nyflot, WA Chaovalitwongse… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Purpose To improve the detection of errors in intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT)
with a novel method that uses quantitative image features from radiomics to analyze gamma …

A study on the effect of detector resolution on gamma index passing rate for VMAT and IMRT QA

WA Woon, PB Ravindran, P Ekayanake… - Journal of applied …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The main objectives of this study are to (1) analyze the sensitivity of various gamma index
passing rates using different types of detectors having different resolutions and (2) …