The use of image-guided patient positioning requires fast and reliable Quality Assurance (QA) methods to ensure the megavoltage (MV) treatment beam coincides with the integrated kilovoltage (kV) or volumetric cone-beam CT (CBCT) imaging and guidance systems. Current QA protocol is based on visually observing deviations of certain features in acquired kV in-room treatment images such as markers,...

Konferenzbeschreibung Die IWSM/MetriKon/MENSURA 2010 wurde von der GI-Fachgruppe 2.1.10 Software-Messung und Bewertung, der kanadischen Gesellschaft für Metrikenanwendung in Montreal (CIM) und dem Common Software Measurement International Consortium (COSMIC), der Deutsch-sprachigen Anwendergruppe für Software-Metrik und Aufwand-schätzung (DASMA) und der spanischen Community zur Software-Messung...

The quality of the software design often has a major impact on the quality of the final product and the effort for development and evolution. A number of quality assurance (QA) approaches for inspection of early-life-cycle documents have been empirically evaluated. An implicit assumption of these studies was: an investment into early defect detection and removal saves higher rework cost. The co...

PURPOSE A software program (MU-EPID) has been developed to perform patient specific IMRT pre-treatment QA verification using an electronic portal imaging device. METHODS The software converts measured images of intensity modulated beams delivered to an EPID, into fluence maps that can be imported in the treatment planning system. The dose can then be calculated in the patient anatomy and comp...

ID: 19178 Title: Establishing Comprehensive Quality Assurance Program for Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy -Clinical Study Using Control Point Analysis Software Purpose: to validate the clinical effectiveness of Control Point Analysis (CPA) software and establish a comprehensive quality assurance (QA) program for Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT) treatment. Methods: The comparison and gam...

Background: Open source (OS) software is continuously gaining recognition and use in the biomedical domain, for example, in health informatics and bioinformatics. Objectives: Given the mission critical nature of applications in this domain and their potential impact on patient safety, it is important to understand to what degree and how effectively biomedical OS developers perform standard qual...

BACKGROUND Open source (OS) software is continuously gaining recognition and use in the biomedical domain, for example, in health informatics and bioinformatics. OBJECTIVES Given the mission critical nature of applications in this domain and their potential impact on patient safety, it is important to understand to what degree and how effectively biomedical OS developers perform standard qual...

ID: 19178 Title: Establishing Comprehensive Quality Assurance Program for Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy -Clinical Study Using Control Point Analysis Software Purpose: to validate the clinical effectiveness of Control Point Analysis (CPA) software and establish a comprehensive quality assurance (QA) program for Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT) treatment. Methods: The comparison and gam...