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Table 1 Institutional treatment planning systems and anthropomorphic quality assurance phantoms performing the VPP for 12 EORTC centers

From: IMRT credentialing for prospective trials using institutional virtual phantoms: results of a joint European Organization for the Research and Treatment of Cancer and Radiological Physics Center project

Treatment planning systems

Number (%)

Type of computational algorithms

 Eclipse

7 (58.3)

AAA

 Tomotherapy

2 (16.7)

CSA

 Pinnacle

2 (16.7)

CC

 Monaco

1 (8.3)

Monte Carlo

Type of quality assurance phantom and measurement tool

Number (%)

Registration method

 Delta4

4 (33.3)

Central

 Cheese fantom + film

1 (8.3)

Automatic

 Octavius + 2D-array

4 (33.3)

Central

 Portal Dosimetry

2 (16.7)

Central

 Solid water slabs + film

1 (8.3)

Automatic

  1. Abbreviations: CSA/AAA: Convolution superposition algorithm-Analytical anisotropic algorithm; CC: Collapsed Cone algorithm.