BACKGROUND: Dosimetric commissioning and quality assurance (QA) for linear accelerators (LINACs) present a significant challenge for clinical physicists due to the high measurement workload and stringent precision standards. This challenge is exacerb...
BACKGROUND: Modern radiation therapy techniques, such as intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and volumetric-modulated arc therapy (VMAT), use complex fluence modulation strategies to achieve optimal patient dose distribution. Ensuring their ...
The journal of trauma and acute care surgery
Dec 14, 2024
BACKGROUND: Current tools to review focused abdominal sonography for trauma (FAST) images for quality have poorly defined grading criteria or are developed to grade the skills of the sonographer and not the examination. The purpose of this study is t...
Journal of applied clinical medical physics
Dec 1, 2024
OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of the automated RapidPlan in assessing plan quality and to explore how beam complexity affects the mechanical performance of volumetric modulated arc therapy for head and neck cancers.
Journal of applied clinical medical physics
Nov 25, 2024
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Routine quality control procedures are still required for sCT based on artificial intelligence (AI) to verify the performance of the generators. The aim of this study was to evaluate three generators based on AI or bulk densit...
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)
Nov 1, 2024
PURPOSE: Comprehensive Quality Assurance (QA) protocols are necessary for complex beam delivery systems like Pencil Beam Scanning (PBS) proton therapy. This study focuses on automating the evaluation of beam delivery accuracy using irradiation log fi...
This paper describes the use of digital solutions to improve the care of trauma patients in Germany. The focus is on the trauma networks of the German Society for Trauma Surgery (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Unfallchirurgie, DGU). The use of digital sol...
PURPOSE: Retrospectively compare image quality, radiologist diagnostic confidence, and time for images to reach PACS for contrast enhanced abdominopelvic CT examinations created on the scanner console by technologists versus those generated automatic...
BACKGROUND: Quality assessment of diagnostic accuracy studies (QUADAS), and more recently QUADAS-2, were developed to aid the evaluation of methodological quality within primary diagnostic accuracy studies. However, its current form, QUADAS-2 does no...
Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Aug 31, 2024
PURPOSE: To validate a CT-based deep learning (DL) hippocampal segmentation model trained on a single-institutional dataset and explore its utility for multi-institutional contour quality assurance (QA).
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