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Breaking bad IMRT QA practice by Strahinja Stojadinovic; Luo Ouyang; Xuejun Gu; Arnold Pompoš; Qinan Bao; Timothy D. Solberg is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Breaking bad IMRT QA practice about?
Agreement between planned and delivered dose distributions for patient-specific quality assurance in routine clinical practice is predominantly assessed utilizing the gamma index method. Several reports, however, fundamentally question current IMRT QA practice due to poor sensitivity and specificity of the standard gamma index implementation. An alternative is to employ dose volume histogram (DVH)-based metrics. An analysis based on the AAPM TG 53 and ESTRO booklet No.7 recommendations for QA of treatment planning systems reveals deficiencies in the current "state of the art" IMRT QA, no matter which metric is selected. The set of IMRT benchmark plans were planned, delivered, and analyzed by following guidance of the AAPM TG 119 report. The recommended point dose and planar dose measurements were obtained using a PinPoint ionization chamber, EDR2 radiographic film, and a 2D ionization chamber array. Gamma index criteria {3% (global), 3 mm} and {3% (local), 3 mm} were used to assess the agreement between calculated and delivered planar dose distributions. Next, the AAPM TG 53 and ESTRO booklet No.7 recommendations were followed by dividing dose distributions into four distinct regio
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- Author
- Strahinja Stojadinovic; Luo Ouyang; Xuejun Gu; Arnold Pompoš; Qinan Bao; Timothy D. Solberg
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)