Patient-specific quality assurance at the Heidelberg Ion Beam Therapy Center: 10 years experience in treatment plan verification.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To ensure accurate, safe, and reproducible patient treatments, it is essential to have precise knowledge and a solid understanding of patient-specific quality assurance (PSQA). For many years, the delivery of doses to all patients has been verified using dosimetric measurements. However, these measurements require substantial work, and the reasons for the occasional deviations are unclear. For these reasons, alternative methods such as independent dose calculations (IDCs) and analysis of beam-monitor log files are increasingly discussed in the particle therapy community. Nevertheless, before replacing dose-verification measurements with other methods, existing measurement data should be thoroughly analyzed to determine what can be learned from them and how they compare w

SUBMITTER: Qubala A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12742551 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature