Automated Verification of IGRT‐based Patient Positioning. (8th November 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Jiang, Xiaojun; Fox, Tim; Cordova, James S.; Schreibmann, Eduard
• Is Part Of: Journal of applied clinical medical physics. Volume 16:Number 6(2015)
• Page Start: 484
• Page End: 489
• Publication Date: 2015-11-08
• Subjects: verification -- quality assurance; Medical physics -- Periodicals; Clinical medicine -- Periodicals; Health Physics; Clinical Medicine; Electronic journals; Periodicals; Periodicals; Fulltext; Internet Resources; 610.153
• DOI: 10.1120/jacmp.v16i6.5295
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1526-9914

Abstract

Abstract : A system for automated quality assurance in radiotherapy of a therapist's registration was designed and tested in clinical practice. The approach compliments the clinical software's automated registration in terms of algorithm configuration and performance, and constitutes a practical approach for ensuring safe patient setups. Per our convergence analysis, evolutionary algorithms perform better in finding the global optima of the cost function with discrepancies from a deterministic optimizer seen sporadically. PACS number(s): 87.55.Qr, 87.55.T, 87.55.N