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  • Medical Physics
  • Radiation Oncology
  • Radiotherapy Quality Assurance

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  • Standard gamma evaluation is crucial for comparing dose distributions in radiotherapy.
  • Existing methods require predefined dose and distance criteria, limiting flexibility.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and evaluate a novel inverse gamma (IG) evaluation method for dose distribution comparison.
  • To modify the conventional gamma evaluation to determine necessary criteria for a given agreement level.

Main Methods:

  • Developed in-house Python code to implement the inverse gamma evaluation.
  • Investigated the method using treatment plans and measurement data from 25 retrospective patient-specific quality assurance tests (53 arcs).
  • Calculated the dose difference (ΔD) or distance-to-agreement (Δd) criteria needed for a predefined gamma agreement index (GAI).

Main Results:

  • Setting GAI to 95% allowed ~75% of arcs to achieve Δd within 1 mm (mean Δd: 0.7 ± 0.5 mm).
  • A mean Δd of 4.5 ± 3.1 mm was required for 100% pass rate (GAI = 100%).
  • Explored evaluating IG by fixing Δd or ΔD/Δd, rather than a fixed ΔD of 3%.

Conclusions:

  • The inverse gamma method can clinically quantify minimum dose and distance criteria based on a specified GAI.
  • IG provides supplementary data to standard gamma evaluation for patient-specific quality assurance.
  • Potential application in retrospective audits to establish local gamma criteria and action levels.