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 …

Per‐beam, planar IMRT QA passing rates do not predict clinically relevant patient dose errors

BE Nelms, H Zhen, WA Tomé - Medical physics, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The purpose of this work is to determine the statistical correlation between per‐
beam, planar IMRT QA passing rates and several clinically relevant, anatomy‐based dose …

Pretreatment patient‐specific IMRT quality assurance: a correlation study between gamma index and patient clinical dose volume histogram

M Stasi, S Bresciani, A Miranti, A Maggio… - Medical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The aim of this work is to investigate the predictive power of a common
conventional intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) quality assurance (QA) …

Comprehensive validation of halcyon 2.0 plans and the implementation of patient specific QA with multiple detector platforms

E Laugeman, A Heermann, J Hilliard… - Journal of applied …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To perform a comprehensive validation of plans generated on a preconfigured
Halcyon 2.0 with preloaded beam model, including evaluations of new features and …

IMRT QA: selecting gamma criteria based on error detection sensitivity

JM Steers, BA Fraass - Medical physics, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: The gamma comparison is widely used to evaluate the agreement between
measurements and treatment planning system calculations in patient‐specific intensity …

ROC analysis in patient specific quality assurance

M Carlone, C Cruje, A Rangel, R McCabe… - Medical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: This work investigates the use of receiver operating characteristic (ROC) methods
in patient specific IMRT quality assurance (QA) in order to determine unbiased methods to …

Development of a geometrically accurate imaging protocol at 3 Tesla MRI for stereotactic radiosurgery treatment planning

B Zhang, D Macfadden, AZ Damyanovich… - Physics in Medicine …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
The purpose of this study is to develop a geometrically accurate imaging protocol at 3 T
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) treatment planning …

Incorporating plan complexity into the statistical process control of volumetric modulated arc therapy pre‐treatment verifications

S Russo, J Saez, M Esposito, A Bruschi… - Medical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background Statistical process control (SPC) is a powerful statistical tool for process
monitoring that has been highly recommended in healthcare applications, including …