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Dose Verification in Intensity Modulation Radiation Therapy: A Fractal Dimension Characteristics Study
Purpose. This study describes how to identify the coincidence of desired planning isodose curves with film experimental results by using a mathematical fractal dimension characteristic method to avoid the errors caused by visual inspection in the intensity modulation radiation therapy (IMRT). Method...
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3722795/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23956976 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/349437 |
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author | Wu, Jia-Ming Kuo, Chung-Ming Chen, Ching-Jiang |
author_facet | Wu, Jia-Ming Kuo, Chung-Ming Chen, Ching-Jiang |
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description | Purpose. This study describes how to identify the coincidence of desired planning isodose curves with film experimental results by using a mathematical fractal dimension characteristic method to avoid the errors caused by visual inspection in the intensity modulation radiation therapy (IMRT). Methods and Materials. The isodose curves of the films delivered by linear accelerator according to Plato treatment planning system were acquired using Osiris software to aim directly at a single interested dose curve for fractal characteristic analysis. The results were compared with the corresponding planning desired isodose curves for fractal dimension analysis in order to determine the acceptable confidence level between the planning and the measurement. Results. The film measured isodose curves and computer planning curves were deemed identical in dose distribution if their fractal dimensions are within some criteria which suggested that the fractal dimension is a unique fingerprint of a curve in checking the planning and film measurement results. The dose measured results of the film were presumed to be the same if their fractal dimension was within 1%. Conclusions. This quantitative rather than qualitative comparison done by fractal dimension numerical analysis helps to decrease the quality assurance errors in IMRT dosimetry verification. |
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spelling | pubmed-37227952013-08-16 Dose Verification in Intensity Modulation Radiation Therapy: A Fractal Dimension Characteristics Study Wu, Jia-Ming Kuo, Chung-Ming Chen, Ching-Jiang Biomed Res Int Research Article Purpose. This study describes how to identify the coincidence of desired planning isodose curves with film experimental results by using a mathematical fractal dimension characteristic method to avoid the errors caused by visual inspection in the intensity modulation radiation therapy (IMRT). Methods and Materials. The isodose curves of the films delivered by linear accelerator according to Plato treatment planning system were acquired using Osiris software to aim directly at a single interested dose curve for fractal characteristic analysis. The results were compared with the corresponding planning desired isodose curves for fractal dimension analysis in order to determine the acceptable confidence level between the planning and the measurement. Results. The film measured isodose curves and computer planning curves were deemed identical in dose distribution if their fractal dimensions are within some criteria which suggested that the fractal dimension is a unique fingerprint of a curve in checking the planning and film measurement results. The dose measured results of the film were presumed to be the same if their fractal dimension was within 1%. Conclusions. This quantitative rather than qualitative comparison done by fractal dimension numerical analysis helps to decrease the quality assurance errors in IMRT dosimetry verification. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-07-08 /pmc/articles/PMC3722795/ /pubmed/23956976 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/349437 Text en Copyright © 2013 Jia-Ming Wu et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Wu, Jia-Ming Kuo, Chung-Ming Chen, Ching-Jiang Dose Verification in Intensity Modulation Radiation Therapy: A Fractal Dimension Characteristics Study |
title | Dose Verification in Intensity Modulation Radiation Therapy: A Fractal Dimension Characteristics Study |
title_full | Dose Verification in Intensity Modulation Radiation Therapy: A Fractal Dimension Characteristics Study |
title_fullStr | Dose Verification in Intensity Modulation Radiation Therapy: A Fractal Dimension Characteristics Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Dose Verification in Intensity Modulation Radiation Therapy: A Fractal Dimension Characteristics Study |
title_short | Dose Verification in Intensity Modulation Radiation Therapy: A Fractal Dimension Characteristics Study |
title_sort | dose verification in intensity modulation radiation therapy: a fractal dimension characteristics study |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3722795/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23956976 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/349437 |
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