Evaluation of treatment plan quality for head and neck IMRT: a multicenter study

DA Hizam, WL Jong, HM Zin, KH Ng, NM Ung - Medical Dosimetry, 2021 - Elsevier
… In this study, VMAT was shown to achieve a lower mean dose than IMRT as presented in Fig.
5, … Differences in PQI values between centers were observed in this study. The PQI was a …

IAEA methodology for on-site end-to-end IMRT/VMAT audits: an international pilot study

P Kazantsev, W Lechner, E Gershkevitsh… - Acta …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
… was verified by the local pre-treatment QA procedure. In all cases, it involved 2D dose
comparison … At the same time, in the study analyzing the multi-institutional results of IROC-Houston …

[HTML][HTML] Establish a comprehensive plan robustness evaluation platform for intensity modulated proton therapy for bilateral head and neck cancer based on the daily …

WG Wang, A Qin, X Li, J Zhou, D Yan… - Therapeutic …, 2022 - tro.amegroups.org
… volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) in our institution were … accruing multi-institutional
randomized trial comparing IMRT vs… Multiple patient factors such as pre-treatment body mass …

[PDF][PDF] IMRT national audit–application of IAEA methodology and extension to new technologies

TFS Santos - 2021 - baes.uc.pt
… , allows for an independent comparison of the followed … and compare the complexity of
the audit IMRT/VMAT plans, … , there is a pre-treatment quality assurance (QA) verification to …

A prospective phase II study of automated non-coplanar VMAT for recurrent head and neck cancer: Initial report of feasibility, safety, and patient-reported outcomes

KE Woods, TM Ma, KA Cook, ED Morris, Y Gao… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
… recorded in the record and verify system for the treated plans and … Grade 2 and 3 pre-treatment
head and neck morbidities … demonstrated that compared to conventional VMAT plans, the …

Multi-organ omics-based prediction for adaptive radiation therapy eligibility in nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients undergoing concurrent chemoradiotherapy

SK Lam, Y Zhang, J Zhang, B Li, JC Sun… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
… for a fair comparison with the four multi-omics models. … demonstrating no significant difference
as compared to all studied … of tumoral Radiomics from pre-treatment MRI for prediction of …

Evaluation of the complexity of treatment plans from a national IMRT/VMAT audit–towards a plan complexity score

T Santos, T Ventura, M do Carmo Lopes - Physica Medica, 2020 - Elsevier
… useful in the context of multi-institutional dosimetry audits. In … of a patient with a nasopharynx
tumour. Each institution had to … of pre-treatment verification considering a set of 758 VMAT

Plan complexity and delivery accuracy of knowledge-based volumetric modulated arc therapy plans with single optimization for oropharyngeal cancer

K Okuhata, H Monzen, M Tamura… - Anticancer …, 2021 - ar.iiarjournals.org
… OPC or nasopharyngeal cancer who underwent VMAT and … big data models based on
multi-institutional clinical plans will be … for predicting IMRT pre-treatment quality assurance results. …

Personalized automation of treatment planning in head-neck cancer: A step forward for quality in radiation therapy?

S Cilla, F Deodato, C Romano, A Ianiro, G Macchia… - Physica Medica, 2021 - Elsevier
… Radiotherapy was prescribed using VMAT with simultaneous … inadequacy in nasopharyngeal
carcinoma reported a … the slightly lower pass rate in pre-treatment dose verification. …

… to determine control and therapeutic outcomes of radiotherapy (HNC-PREDICTOR): development, international multi-institutional validation, and web implementation …

LV van Dijk, ASR Mohamed, S Ahmed, N Nipu… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
… For a subset of patients with available pre-treatment contrast-… Outcome prediction was robust
across multi-institutional … substantially lower in European compared to the North American …