- Title
- Virtual EPID standard phantom audit (VESPA) for remote IMRT and VMAT credentialing
- Creator
- Miri, Narges; Lehmann, Joerg; Legge, Kimberley; Vial, Philip; Greer, Peter B.
- Relation
- Physics in Medicine and Biology Vol. 62, Issue 11, p. 4293-4299
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6560/aa63df
- Publisher
- Institute of Physics Publishing
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- A virtual EPID standard phantom audit (VESPA) has been implemented for remote auditing in support of facility credentialing for clinical trials using IMRT and VMAT. VESPA is based on published methods and a clinically established IMRT QA procedure, here extended to multi-vendor equipment. Facilities are provided with comprehensive instructions and CT datasets to create treatment plans. They deliver the treatment directly to their EPID without any phantom or couch in the beam. In addition, they deliver a set of simple calibration fields per instructions. Collected EPID images are uploaded electronically. In the analysis, the dose is projected back into a virtual cylindrical phantom. 3D gamma analysis is performed. 2D dose planes and linear dose profiles are provided and can be considered when needed for clarification. In addition, using a virtual flat-phantom, 2D field-by-field or arc-by-arc gamma analyses are performed.
- Subject
- audit; EPID; IMRT; VMAT; clinical trials; VESPA
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1397542
- Identifier
- uon:34305
- Identifier
- ISSN:0031-9155
- Language
- eng
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