Poster - Thurs Eve-42: A revision of the γ-evaluation: Initial interpretation of dose disagreements on γ-vector fields

Medical Physics
O HolmesL J Schreiner

Abstract

Gamma evaluations are a common clinical tool used as a quantitative comparison between dose-distributions, combining both dose difference and distance to agreement criteria. Because gamma evaluations permit rapid analysis of agreement between complex dose distributions, they are often a preferred comparison method for assessing delivery of conformal radiotherapy distributions. Although the comparison provides a useful measure of agreement between distributions when the index is less than one, the scalar gamma value provides little information into the clinical significance or source of disagreements of failing gamma values (i.e., when γ>1). Previously, Stock et al., have presented the gamma angle as an indicator of the relative influence of the distance to agreement versus the dose difference on gamma. We present a modification to the gamma evaluation such that the complete 3D gamma vector information is considered. The predictive nature of each vector component was investigated by simulating various dose disagreements in test distributions. Misalignment tests revealed that the mean gamma vector components indicate the offset direction and relative magnitude for all test distributions. The mean dose component of the gamma vecto...Continue Reading

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May 3, 2018·Healthcare Management Forum·Paul G Swingle, Elizabeth Hartney

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