Report of AAPM Task Group 219 on independent calculation‐based dose/MU verification for IMRT

TC Zhu, S Stathakis, JR Clark, W Feng… - Medical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Independent verification of the dose per monitor unit (MU) to deliver the prescribed dose to a
patient has been a mainstay of radiation oncology quality assurance (QA). We discuss the …

Dosimetry of ionising radiation in modern radiation oncology

T Kron, J Lehmann, PB Greer - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Dosimetry of ionising radiation is a well-established and mature branch of physical sciences
with many applications in medicine and biology. In particular radiotherapy relies on …

Online magnetic resonance image guided adaptive radiation therapy: first clinical applications

S Acharya, BW Fischer-Valuck, R Kashani… - International Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Purpose To demonstrate the feasibility of online adaptive magnetic resonance (MR) image
guided radiation therapy (MR-IGRT) through reporting of our initial clinical experience and …

Correlation of phantom‐based and log file patient‐specific QA with complexity scores for VMAT

CE Agnew, DM Irvine… - Journal of applied clinical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The motivation for this study was to reduce physics workload relating to patient‐specific
quality assurance (QA). VMAT plan delivery accuracy was determined from analysis of pre …

[HTML][HTML] A practical implementation of risk management for the clinical introduction of online adaptive Magnetic Resonance-guided radiotherapy

S Klüter, O Schrenk, CK Renkamp… - Physics and Imaging in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Background and Purpose The clinical introduction of on-table adaptive
radiotherapy with Magnetic Resonance (MR)-guided linear accelerators (Linacs) yields new …

A tool for patient‐specific prediction of delivery discrepancies in machine parameters using trajectory log files

KC Chuang, W Giles, J Adamson - Medical Physics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Multileaf collimator (MLC) delivery discrepancy between planned and actual
(delivered) positions have detrimental effect on the accuracy of dose distributions for both …

Towards effective and efficient patient-specific quality assurance for spot scanning proton therapy

XR Zhu, Y Li, D Mackin, H Li, F Poenisch, AK Lee… - Cancers, 2015 - mdpi.com
An intensity-modulated proton therapy (IMPT) patient-specific quality assurance (PSQA)
program based on measurement alone can be very time consuming due to the highly …

A multi-institution evaluation of MLC log files and performance in IMRT delivery

JR Kerns, N Childress, SF Kry - Radiation Oncology, 2014 - Springer
Background The multileaf collimator (MLC) is a critical component to accurate intensity-
modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) delivery. This study examined MLC positional accuracy via …

Prospective clinical validation of virtual patient-specific quality assurance of volumetric modulated arc therapy radiation therapy plans

PDH Wall, E Hirata, O Morin, G Valdes… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Purpose Performing measurement-based patient-specific quality assurance (PSQA) is
recognized as a resource-intensive and time inefficient task in the radiation therapy …

Phantomless patient‐specific TomoTherapy QA via delivery performance monitoring and a secondary Monte Carlo dose calculation

LL Handsfield, R Jones, DD Wilson, JV Siebers… - Medical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: To describe the validation and implementation of a novel quality assurance (QA)
system for TomoTherapy using a Monte Carlo (MC)‐based secondary dose calculation and …