Film-based delivery quality assurance for robotic radiosurgery: Commissioning and validation.

Journal: Physica medica : PM : an international journal devoted to the applications of physics to medicine and biology : official journal of the Italian Association of Biomedical Physics (AIFB)
Published Date: May 21, 2015

Abstract

PURPOSE: Robotic radiosurgery demands comprehensive delivery quality assurance (DQA), but guidelines for commissioning of the DQA method is missing. We investigated the stability and sensitivity of our film-based DQA method with various test scenarios and routine patient plans. We also investigated the applicability of tight distance-to-agreement (DTA) Gamma-Index criteria.

Authors

  • Oliver Blanck
  • Laura Masi
    IFCA, Department of Medical Physics and Radiation Oncology, Firenze, Italy.
  • Marie-Christin Damme
    Saphir Radiochirurgie Zentrum Norddeutschland, Güstrow, Germany; Technische Universität Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany.
  • Guido Hildebrandt
    Universitätsklinikum Rostock, Klinik für Strahlentherapie, Rostock, Germany.
  • Jürgen Dunst
    Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Klinik für Strahlentherapie, Kiel, Germany; University Clinic Copenhagen, Department of Radiation Oncology, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • Frank-Andre Siebert
    Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Klinik für Strahlentherapie, Kiel, Germany.
  • Daniela Poppinga
    Carl von Ossietzky Universität, Universitätsklinik für Medizinische Strahlenphysik, Campus Pius Hospital, Oldenburg, Germany.
  • Björn Poppe
    Carl von Ossietzky Universität, Universitätsklinik für Medizinische Strahlenphysik, Campus Pius Hospital, Oldenburg, Germany.

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