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Table 1 Gradients of best-fitting lines by linear regression of the absolute passing rates vs. MLC misalignments

From: The sensitivity of gamma-index method to the positioning errors of high-definition MLC in patient-specific VMAT QA for SBRT

 

1%/1 mm

1.5%/1.5 mm

1%/2 mm

2%/1 mm

2%/2 mm

Class Out (mm/%)

MapCHECK2

Lung

-37.7

-29.8

-30.3

-32.4

-15.5

 

Spine

-41.5

-16.0

-22.6

-27.8

-5.1

EBT2

Lung

-31.6

-36.5

-30.8

-39.5

-26.3

 

Spine

-28.0

-34.2

-30.9

-35.4

-29.5

Class In (mm/%)

MapCHECK2

Lung

-37.9

-26.5

-24.3

-33.1

-10.9

 

Spine

-41.1

-24.4

-20.4

-35.4

-12.6

EBT2

Lung

-30.5

-36.2

-32.6

-38.0

-30.1

 

Spine

-28.3

-31.4

-28.2

-33.6

-25.8

Class Shift (mm/%)

MapCHECK2

Lung

-12.4

-9.6

-7.9

-11.3

-5.2

 

Spine

-8.3

-3.9

-3.4

-5.9

-2.5

EBT2

Lung

-9.4

-8.4

-6.6

-11.0

-5.8

 

Spine

-7.5

-7.1

-6.0

-8.3

-5.2

  1. Abbreviation: MLC multi-leaf collimator A higher absolute gradient means the test criteria are more sensitive to detect MLC misalignments.