Plan quality in radiotherapy treatment planning–Review of the factors and challenges

CR Hansen, M Hussein, U Bernchou… - Journal of Medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A high‐quality treatment plan aims to best achieve the clinical prescription, balancing high
target dose to maximise tumour control against sufficiently low organ‐at‐risk dose for …

Monte Carlo dose verification of VMAT treatment plans using Elekta Agility 160-leaf MLC

R Onizuka, F Araki, T Ohno - Physica Medica, 2018 - Elsevier
In this study, we verified volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) plans in an Elekta
Synergy system with an integrated Agility 160-leaf multileaf collimator (MLC) by comparing …

Correlation between the γ passing rates of IMRT plans and the volumes of air cavities and bony structures in head and neck cancer

Z Shen, X Tan, S Li, X Tian, H Luo, Y Wang, F ** - Radiation Oncology, 2021 - Springer
Background Both patient-specific dose recalculation and γ passing rate analysis are
important for the quality assurance (QA) of intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) plans …

Evaluation of machine log files/MC‐based treatment planning and delivery QA as compared to Arc CHECK QA

CW Stanhope, DG Drake, J Liang, M Alber… - Medical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose A treatment planning/delivery QA tool using linac log files (LF) and Monte Carlo
(MC) dose calculation is investigated as a standalone alternative to phantom‐based patient …

Quantified difference of the collapsed cone convolution (CCC) and Monte Carlo (MC) algorithms based on DVH and gamma analysis for cervical cancer radiation …

R Zhang, J Bai, R Wang, J Yan, L Chang… - Applied Radiation and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Objective To quantify the difference between the (collapsed cone convolution) CCC
algorithm and the (Monte Carlo) MC algorithm and remind that the planners should pay …

Dosimetric Study and Robustness Analysis of Base Note Intensive Locked Field Radiotherapy for Left Breast Cancer

C Tang, Q Cao, X Ai - Breast Cancer: Targets and Therapy, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Background The locked vision plan can make the left breast cancer heart and lung organs
dose. Objective The aim of the present study was to compare the dosimetric differences …

[HTML][HTML] Performance evaluation of algorithms in Lung IMRT: A comparison of Monte Carlo, pencil beam, superposition, fast superposition and convolution algorithms

T Verma, NK Painuly, SP Mishra… - Journal of Biomedical …, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Inclusion of inhomogeneity corrections in intensity modulated small fields
always makes conformal irradiation of lung tumor very complicated in accurate dose …

Stereotactic body radiotherapy for small lung tumors in the university of Tokyo hospital

H Yamashita, W Takahashi, A Haga… - BioMed Research …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Our work on stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for primary and metastatic lung
tumors will be described. The eligibility criteria for SBRT, our previous SBRT method, the …

[PDF][PDF] 乳腺癌根治术后特定射野固定钨门分野静态 IMRT 与 VMAT 的临床剂量学评估

巩汉顺, 孟玲玲, 解传滨, 谷珊珊, 王金媛, 杨涛… - **医疗 …, 2021 - cs.china-cmd.org
目的比较乳腺癌根治术后患者特定射野固定钨门静态调**放疗(Intensity Modulated Radiation
Therapy, IMRT) 与容积旋转调**放疗(Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy, VMAT) …

An automated Monte Carlo QC system for volumetric modulated arc therapy: possibilities and challenges

R Chakarova, R Cronholm, M Krantz, P Andersson… - Physica Medica, 2018 - Elsevier
Purpose To develop and implement an automated Monte Carlo (MC) system for patient
specific VMAT quality control in a patient geometry that generates treatment planning system …