Report of AAPM Task Group 155: megavoltage photon beam dosimetry in small fields and non‐equilibrium conditions

IJ Das, P Francescon, JM Moran, A Ahnesjö… - Medical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Multi‐institution validation of a new high spatial resolution diode array for SRS and SBRT plan pretreatment quality assurance

MS Rose, L Tirpak, K Van Casteren, J Zack… - Medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose The SRS MapCHECK®, a recently developed patient‐specific quality assurance
(PSQA) tool for end‐to‐end testing of stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and stereotactic body …

Impact of the MLC leaf‐tip model in a commercial TPS: dose calculation limitations and IROC‐H phantom failures

B Koger, R Price, D Wang, D Toomeh… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Treatment planning system (TPS) dose calculation is sensitive to multileaf
collimator (MLC) modeling, especially when treating with intensity‐modulated radiation …

[HTML][HTML] Plan quality comparison for cervical carcinoma treated with Halcyon and Trilogy intensity-modulated radiotherapy

C Li, J Chen, J Zhu, G Gong, C Tao, Z Li, J Lu… - Journal of …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Purpose: Varian Halcyon is a novel machine with dual-layer leaves, single flattening filter
free (FFF) energy and an enclosed bore. The purpose of this study was to compare the …

Deep learning‐based detection and classification of multi‐leaf collimator modeling errors in volumetric modulated radiation therapy

S Nakamura, M Sakai, N Ishizaka… - Journal of Applied …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose The purpose of this study was to create and evaluate deep learning‐based models
to detect and classify errors of multi‐leaf collimator (MLC) modeling parameters in volumetric …

[HTML][HTML] Relationship between dosimetric leaf gap and dose calculation errors for high definition multi-leaf collimators in radiotherapy

J Kim, JS Han, AT Hsia, S Li, Z Xu, S Ryu - Physics and imaging in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background and purpose Dosimetric leaf gap (DLG) is a parameter to model the round-leaf-
end effect of multi-leaf collimators (MLC) that is important for treatment planning dose …

Monte Carlo-based independent dose verification of radiosurgery HyperArc plans

JF Calvo-Ortega, S Moragues-Femenía, C Laosa-Bello… - Physica Medica, 2022 - Elsevier
Purpose To investigate the feasibility of using the free PRIMO Monte Carlo software for
independent dose check of cranial SRS plans designed with the Varian HyperArc (HA) …

On the need for tuning the dosimetric leaf gap for stereotactic treatment plans in the Eclipse treatment planning system

L Vieillevigne, C Khamphan, J Saez… - Journal of applied …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The dosimetric leaf gap (DLG) and tongue‐and‐groove (T&G) effects are critical aspects in
the modeling of multileaf collimators (MLC) in the treatment planning system (TPS). In this …

A novel procedure for determining the optimal MLC configuration parameters in treatment planning systems based on measurements with a Farmer chamber

J Saez, V Hernandez, J Goossens… - Physics in Medicine …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Modelling of the multi-leaf collimator (MLC) in treatment planning systems (TPS) is crucial for
the dose calculation accuracy of intensity-modulated radiation therapy plans. However, no …

Sensitivity of IROC phantom performance to radiotherapy treatment planning system beam modeling parameters based on community‐driven data

MC Glenn, CB Peterson, RM Howell… - Medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Treatment planning system (TPS) dose calculations have previously been shown to
be sensitive to modeling errors, especially when treating with complex strategies like …