Purpose Patient‐specific IMRT QA measurements are important components of processes
designed to identify discrepancies between calculated and delivered radiation doses …

The Monte Carlo (MC) method has been shown through many research studies to calculate
accurate dose distributions for clinical radiotherapy, particularly in heterogeneous patient …

The increasing complexity of modern radiation therapy planning and delivery challenges
traditional prescriptive quality management (QM) methods, such as many of those included …

Purpose This report presents the methods and results of the Thoracic Auto‐Segmentation
Challenge organized at the 2017 Annual Meeting of American Association of Physicists in …

Task Group 101 of the AAPM has prepared this report for medical physicists, clinicians, and
therapists in order to outline the best practice guidelines for the external‐beam radiation …

AAPM Task Group 119 has produced quantitative confidence limits as baseline expectation
values for IMRT commissioning. A set of test cases was developed to assess the overall …

Small‐field dosimetry used in advance treatment technologies poses challenges due to loss
of lateral charged particle equilibrium (LCPE), occlusion of the primary photon source, and …

From background physics and biological models to the latest imaging and treatment
modalities, the Handbook of Radiotherapy Physics: Theory and Practice covers all …

For commissioning a linear accelerator for clinical use, medical physicists are faced with
many challenges including the need for precision, a variety of testing methods, data …

Intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) poses a number of challenges for properly
measuring commissioning data and quality assurance (QA) radiation dose distributions. This …