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Testing of a treatment planning system with beam data from IAEA TECDOC 1540
Quality assurance of external-beam treatment-planning systems is recommended, and this can be partly achieved with predefined type tests. The beam data and test geometries of IAEA TECDOC 1540 have been used to test the analytical anisotropic algorithm (AAA) and pencil-beam convolution (PBC) algorith...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3119951/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21731227 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-6203.79688 |
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author | Healy, B. J. Murry, R. L. |
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description | Quality assurance of external-beam treatment-planning systems is recommended, and this can be partly achieved with predefined type tests. The beam data and test geometries of IAEA TECDOC 1540 have been used to test the analytical anisotropic algorithm (AAA) and pencil-beam convolution (PBC) algorithm of the Varian Eclipse treatment planning system. Beam models were created in Eclipse for 6 MV, 10 MV and 18 MV from the available beam data. Twelve test geometries were re-created in Eclipse, and the differences between Eclipse dose calculations and dose measurements were recorded. The AAA algorithm generally performed better than the PBC algorithm for the 12 tests, but both algorithms did not meet predefined tolerances for asymmetric wedge fields. An in-house monitor unit check program based on collimator and phantom scatter factors with tissue-phantom ratios was also tested and its calculations were found to agree with measurements to within 3.2% for on-axis points. |
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spelling | pubmed-31199512011-06-30 Testing of a treatment planning system with beam data from IAEA TECDOC 1540 Healy, B. J. Murry, R. L. J Med Phys Technical Note Quality assurance of external-beam treatment-planning systems is recommended, and this can be partly achieved with predefined type tests. The beam data and test geometries of IAEA TECDOC 1540 have been used to test the analytical anisotropic algorithm (AAA) and pencil-beam convolution (PBC) algorithm of the Varian Eclipse treatment planning system. Beam models were created in Eclipse for 6 MV, 10 MV and 18 MV from the available beam data. Twelve test geometries were re-created in Eclipse, and the differences between Eclipse dose calculations and dose measurements were recorded. The AAA algorithm generally performed better than the PBC algorithm for the 12 tests, but both algorithms did not meet predefined tolerances for asymmetric wedge fields. An in-house monitor unit check program based on collimator and phantom scatter factors with tissue-phantom ratios was also tested and its calculations were found to agree with measurements to within 3.2% for on-axis points. Medknow Publications 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3119951/ /pubmed/21731227 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-6203.79688 Text en © Journal of Medical Physics http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Technical Note Healy, B. J. Murry, R. L. Testing of a treatment planning system with beam data from IAEA TECDOC 1540 |
title | Testing of a treatment planning system with beam data from IAEA TECDOC 1540 |
title_full | Testing of a treatment planning system with beam data from IAEA TECDOC 1540 |
title_fullStr | Testing of a treatment planning system with beam data from IAEA TECDOC 1540 |
title_full_unstemmed | Testing of a treatment planning system with beam data from IAEA TECDOC 1540 |
title_short | Testing of a treatment planning system with beam data from IAEA TECDOC 1540 |
title_sort | testing of a treatment planning system with beam data from iaea tecdoc 1540 |
topic | Technical Note |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3119951/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21731227 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-6203.79688 |
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