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| June 9, 2010 |
| Emory Medical Physics Quality Assurance Paper Selected Best of 2009 by Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics |
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Dr. Eduard Schreibmann and colleagues image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) paper on quality assurance (QA) was selected by the Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics (JACMP) as LAP Award of Excellence for the Outstanding Radiation Oncology Physics Article in 2009. The paper citation is:
E. Schreibmann, E. Elder and T. Fox, "Automated quality assurance for image-guided radiation therapy," J Applied Clin Med Phys 10, 2919 (2009).
This paper addresses the critical need for 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. Much of the current QA systems rely on time-consuming and subjective tasks; however, this paper presents a method to automate an IGRT QA protocol by using specific image processing algorithms that rigorously detected phantom features and performed all measurements involved in a classical QA protocol. The algorithm was tested on four different IGRT QA phantoms. The study showed that the automated image analysis based procedure may be used as a daily QA procedure because it is completely automated and uses a single phantom setup.
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