Assessment of the Quality of Radiotherapy with the Use of Portal and Simulation Images
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Quality assessment in external beam radiotherapy necessitates for an efficient and robust tool for comparing the planned and realised geometry of the treatment. Such a tool using the modified Hausdorff distance measure has been developed and successfully introduced to clinical practice. The majority of steps of the method are automatic. The user specifies the share of edge data extracted from the images to be used in calculations, not before, but after these calculations are actually performed. Thus, the results of the choice can be seen immediately. This mechanism makes the method extremely robust against partially erroneous or missing data.
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