Survey of patient‐specific quality assurance practice for IMRT and VMAT

Dosimetric and radiobiological comparison for quality assurance of IMRT and VMAT plans

INTRODUCTION The gamma analysis used for quality assurance of a complex radiotherapy plan examines the dosimetric equivalence between planned and measured dose distributions within some tolerance. This study explores whether the dosimetric difference is correlated with any radiobiological difference between delivered and planned dose. METHODS VMAT or IMRT plans optimized for 14 cancer patient...

Quality Assurance of IMRT delivery systems – Varian

Introduction Intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) provides the means for improved treatment for a wide variety of cancers. Piggybacked onto 3DCRT and MLC technologies, IMRT has developed quickly, but will undoubtedly see improvements in core hardware and software as well as in peripheral applications such as record and verify, gating, etc. At the core, individual treatment centers shoul...

Comparison of two commercial detector arrays for IMRT quality assurance

Two commercially available detector arrays were compared for their use in the quality assurance of patient-specific IMRT treatment plans: one a diode-based array (MapCHECK) and the other an ion chamber-based array (MatriXX). The dependence of the response of detectors on the field size, dose rate, and radiation energy were measured and compared with reference measurements using a Farmer-type io...

Evaluation of a 2D diode array for IMRT quality assurance.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The QA of intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) dosimetry is a laborious task. The goal of this work is to evaluate the dosimetric characteristics of a new 2D diode array (MapCheck from Sun Nuclear Corporation, Melbourne, Florida) and assess the role it can play in routine IMRT QA. MATERIAL AND METHODS Fundamental properties of the MapCheck such as reproducibility, li...

Quality Assurance and Good Manufacturing Practice in Respect of Plasma Fractionation