Treatment plan verification: A review on the comparison of dose distributions.
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)
ISSN: 1724-191X
Titre abrégé: Phys Med
Pays: Italy
ID NLM: 9302888
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Nov 2019
Nov 2019
Historique:
received:
17
04
2019
revised:
10
10
2019
accepted:
15
10
2019
pubmed:
11
11
2019
medline:
6
5
2020
entrez:
10
11
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The aim of this review article is to provide a useful reference for dose comparison techniques within the frame of treatment plan verification. Each technique is presented with a general description given along with advantages and disadvantage and the rationale for its development. The review was conducted in PubMed from 1993 to 2019 including articles referring to the methodology of dose comparison for treatment plan verification. The search identified thirty-one dose comparison methods that were categorized according to the number of physical parameters that take into account for dose comparison. Among the available methods for the comparison of two dose distributions, the γ-analysis (gamma analysis) has been widely adopted as the gold standard in verification procedures. However, due to various intrinsic limitations of gamma index, the development of a better metric taking into account both statistical and in clinical parameters is required.
Identifiants
pubmed: 31706146
pii: S1120-1797(19)30479-X
doi: 10.1016/j.ejmp.2019.10.029
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Comparative Study
Journal Article
Review
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
107-115Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2019 Associazione Italiana di Fisica Medica. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.