The NCS code of practice for the quality assurance and control for volumetric modulated arc therapy

Anton Mans; Danny Schuring; Mark P. Arends; Cornelia A. J. M. Vugts; Jochem W. H. Wolthaus; Heidi T. Lotz; Marjan Admiraal; Rob J. W. Louwe; Michel Öllers; Jeroen B. van de Kamer

doi:10.1088/0031-9155/61/19/7221

The NCS code of practice for the quality assurance and control for volumetric modulated arc therapy

Anton Mans^*, Danny Schuring, Mark P. Arends, Cornelia A. J. M. Vugts, Jochem W. H. Wolthaus, Heidi T. Lotz, Marjan Admiraal, Rob J. W. Louwe, Michel Öllers, Jeroen B. van de Kamer

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Abstract

In 2010, the NCS (Netherlands Commission on Radiation Dosimetry) installed a subcommittee to develop guidelines for quality assurance and control for volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) treatments. The report (published in 2015) has been written by Dutch medical physicists and has therefore, inevitably, a Dutch focus. This paper is a condensed version of these guidelines, the full report in English is freely available from the NCS website www.radiationdosimetry.org. After describing the transition from IMRT to VMAT, the paper addresses machine quality assurance (QA) and treatment planning system (TPS) commissioning for VMAT. The final section discusses patient specific QA issues such as the use of class solutions, measurement devices and dose evaluation methods.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	7221-7235
Journal	Physics in Medicine and Biology
Volume	61
Issue number	19
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/0031-9155/61/19/7221
Publication status	Published - 7 Oct 2016

Keywords

volumetric modulated arc therapy
quality assurance
code of practice

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