AAPM Task Group Report 307: use of EPIDs for patient‐specific IMRT and VMAT QA

N Dogan, BJ Mijnheer, K Padgett… - Medical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Electronic portal imaging devices (EPIDs) have been widely utilized for patient‐
specific quality assurance (PSQA) and their use for transit dosimetry applications is …

Monte Carlo methods for device simulations in radiation therapy

H Park, H Paganetti, J Schuemann… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Monte Carlo (MC) simulations play an important role in radiotherapy, especially as a method
to evaluate physical properties that are either impossible or difficult to measure. For …

Validation of a method for in vivo 3D dose reconstruction for IMRT and VMAT treatments using on‐treatment EPID images and a model‐based forward‐calculation …

E Van Uytven, T Van Beek, PM McCowan… - Medical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Radiation treatments are trending toward delivering higher doses per fraction
under stereotactic radiosurgery and hypofractionated treatment regimens. There is a need …

First experience with real-time EPID-based delivery verification during IMRT and VMAT sessions

HC Woodruff, T Fuangrod, E Van Uytven… - International Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Purpose Gantry-mounted megavoltage electronic portal imaging devices (EPIDs) have
become ubiquitous on linear accelerators. WatchDog is a novel application of EPIDs, in …

EPID‐based dosimetry to verify IMRT planar dose distribution for the aS1200 EPID and FFF beams

N Miri, P Keller, BJ Zwan, P Greer - Journal of applied clinical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We proposed to perform a basic dosimetry commissioning on a new imager system, the
Varian aS1200 electronic portal imaging device (EPID) and TrueBeam 2.0 linear accelerator …

Daily QA of linear accelerators using only EPID and OBI

B Sun, SM Goddu, S Yaddanapudi, C Noel… - Medical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: As treatment delivery becomes more complex, there is a pressing need for robust
quality assurance (QA) tools to improve efficiency and comprehensiveness while …

Time dependent pre-treatment EPID dosimetry for standard and FFF VMAT

M Podesta, SM Nijsten, LCGG Persoon… - Physics in Medicine …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Methods to calibrate Megavoltage electronic portal imaging devices (EPIDs) for dosimetry
have been previously documented for dynamic treatments such as intensity modulated …

Optimized Varian aSi portal dosimetry: development of datasets for collective use

AV Esch, DP Huyskens, L Hirschi… - Journal of applied …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Although much literature has been devoted to portal dosimetry with the Varian amorphous
silicon (aSi) portal imager, the majority of the described methods are not routinely adopted …

Model‐based prediction of portal dose images during patient treatment

K Chytyk‐Praznik, E VanUytven, TA Vanbeek… - Medical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Dosimetric verification of radiation therapy is crucial when delivering complex
treatments like intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) or volumetric modulated arc …

Gantry‐angle resolved VMAT pretreatment verification using EPID image prediction

HC Woodruff, T Fuangrod, P Rowshanfarzad… - Medical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Pretreatment verification of volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) dose
delivery with electronic portal imaging device (EPID) uses images integrated over the entire …