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Marco Carlone¹, Charmainne Cruje, Alejandra Rangel

¹Department of Medical Physics, Trillium Health Partners, Mississauga, Ontario L5M 2N1, Canada. marco.carlone@rmp.uhn.on.ca

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Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) methods help set unbiased quality assurance (QA) thresholds for intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT). This approach effectively detects large treatment errors but is less sensitive to smaller deviations.

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Area of Science:

Medical Physics
Radiation Oncology
Radiotherapy Quality Assurance

Background:

Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) requires rigorous quality assurance (QA) to ensure treatment accuracy.
Patient-specific QA is crucial for verifying IMRT plan delivery.
Establishing reliable threshold criteria for gamma (γ)-distance to agreement measurements is essential for effective QA.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the application of receiver operating characteristic (ROC) methods for patient-specific IMRT QA.
To determine unbiased threshold criteria for γ-distance to agreement measurements.
To evaluate the effectiveness of ROC methods in detecting treatment delivery errors.

Main Methods:

Investigated ROC methods for patient-specific IMRT QA.
Delivered 17 prostate plans and created 68 modified plans with known multileaf collimator (MLC) position errors (σ ≈ ±0.5 to ±3.0 mm).
Evaluated plans using five γ-criteria and applied ROC methodology by quantifying "fail" and "pass" rates for modified and unmodified plans, respectively.

Main Results:

ROC methods achieved near 100% sensitivity/specificity for detecting large errors (σ > 3 mm).
Sensitivity and specificity decreased significantly for errors below 2 mm, with null predictive power for errors < 0.5 mm.
Optimal threshold values for the 3%/3 mm γ-criterion ranged from 92% to 99%; for 2%/2 mm, they ranged from 77% to 94%.

Conclusions:

Determined optimal threshold values maximizing test sensitivity and specificity, free from user bias.
Patient-specific QA, using these methods, is effective in preventing large IMRT errors (e.g., σ > 3 mm).
The study suggests patient-specific QA serves as a safety tool rather than a tool for improving IMRT delivery quality.