Clinical significance of treatment delivery errors for helical TomoTherapy nasopharyngeal plans - A dosimetric simulation study

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• 作者：Shrikant Deshpande^a ; ^b ; ^{Shrikant.deshpande@sswahs.nsw.gov.au} ; Mark Geurts^c ; ^{mwgeurts@humonc.wisc.edu} ; Philip Vial^a ; ^d ; ^{Philip.Vial@sswahs.nsw.gov.au} ; Peter Metcalfe^a ; ^b ; ^{metcalfe@uow.edu.au} ; Mark Lee^a ; ^{Mark.Lee@sswahs.nsw.gov.au} ; Lois Holloway^a ; ^b ; ^d ; ^e ; ^{Lois.Holloway@sswahs.nsw.gov.au}
• 关键词：Helical tomotherapy ; Dosimetric simulation ; QA tolerance
• 刊名：Physica Medica
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：33
• 期：Complete
• 页码：159-169
• 全文大小：6268 K
• 卷排序：33

文摘

Framework to characterize helical delivery error and clinical impact. To determine the plan specific delivery error threshold. To validate plan robustness for a given machine QA tolerance. Establish clinical relevant institute specific protocol Tomotherapy QA tolerance.