Which failures do patient‐specific quality assurance systems need to catch?

We have developed a list of failure modes critical to be detected during PSQA and ranked them in order of importance. The top failure modes emphasize the importance of utilizing a variety of treatment verification systems for PSQA, from secondary dose calculation through in-vivo dosimetry, in order to detect all possible errors. For failure modes in the top quartile, PSQA is critical. Without adequate PSQA, these errors may go undetected unless caught by an external audit. This analysis can be useful for optimizing PSQA workflows and for designing evaluations of treatment verification systems, and will be used by the Joint AAPM-ESTRO TG-360 to determine an appropriate validation strategy.

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Medical Physics
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2024-10-28
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https://doi.org/10.1002/mp.17468
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11
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Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques
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Abstract

We have developed a list of failure modes critical to be detected during PSQA and ranked them in order of importance. The top failure modes emphasize the importance of utilizing a variety of treatment verification systems for PSQA, from secondary dose calculation through in-vivo dosimetry, in order to detect all possible errors. For failure modes in the top quartile, PSQA is critical. Without adequate PSQA, these errors may go undetected unless caught by an external audit. This analysis can be useful for optimizing PSQA workflows and for designing evaluations of treatment verification systems, and will be used by the Joint AAPM-ESTRO TG-360 to determine an appropriate validation strategy.

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The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) (IT), University College Hospital (GB), The University of Sydney (AU), The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (US), National Physical Laboratory (GB), Duke University (US), University of Toronto (CA), The Netherlands Cancer Institute (NL), Institut de Recerca Biomèdica Catalunya Sud (ES), Calvary Mater Newcastle Hospital (AU), Hospital Universitari Sant Joan de Reus (ES), Azienda Usl Toscana Centro (IT), Baker Hughes (Canada) (CA), University College London (GB), University of Newcastle Australia (AU)
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