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Table 6 Variation of the systematic differences between dose distributions, reconstructed from expected positions and reconstructed from dynalog files with magnified errors, with the RMS and the PA of PTV 1

From: Treatment verification using Varian’s dynalog files in the Monte Carlo system PRIMO

 

RMS [mm]

α[%]/Δ[%] of ref. max. dose

PA[%] of PTV 1

ε

0.47

6/0.5

99.7

 

0.68

32/0.7

99.6

 

0.95

31/0.9

99.2

 

1.35

53/1.2

99.1

 

1.41

46/1.1

98.6

 

2.03

63/1.7

98.3

|ε|

0.10

18/0.6

99.5

 

0.14

36/0.7

99.1

 

0.19

48/0.9

98.8

 

0.21

77/1.2

98.6

 

0.24

61/1.1

98.5

 

0.28

87/1.5

98.2

 

0.34

93/1.8

97.7

 

0.47

85/2.0

97.0

 

0.68

96/3.4

95.5

  1. α is the percentage of voxels having a deviation Δ given in percentage of the reference maximum dose. Two groups are represented, when the sign of the position error is conserved ε and when it was forced positive |ε|. Both clinical cases are included