ArticleReports of practical oncology and radiotherapy : journal of Greatpoland Cancer Center in Poznan and Polish Society of Radiation Oncology
Retrospective study on performance of constancy check device in Linac beam monitoring using Statistical Process Control.
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- Site-Specific Assessment of Statistical Process Control to Set Tolerance and Action Limits for Patient-Specific Quality Assurance in RapidArc Treatment Delivery.Journal of biomedical physics & engineering · 2025Article
- Detecting outliers beyond tolerance limits derived from statistical process control in patient-specific quality assurance.Journal of applied clinical medical physics · 2024Article
- Using KMeans Clustering to Evaluate and Alert for Deviations of Linac Photon Beam Parameters.Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2024Article
- Automated contouring and statistical process control for plan quality in a breast clinical trial.Physics and imaging in radiation oncology · 2023Article
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Abstract
aimTo examine the application of Statistical Process Control (SPC) and Ishikawa diagrams for retrospective evaluation of machine Quality Assurance (QA) performance in radiotherapy.
backgroundSPC is a popular method for supplementing the performance of QA techniques in healthcare. This work investigates the applicability of SPC techniques and Ishikawa charts in machine QA. MATERIALS AND
methodsSPC has been applied to recommend QA limits on the particular beam parameters using the QUICKCHECK
resultsShewhart charts and EWMA charts applied could detect loss in control in one variable in the 6 MV beams and in all four variables in 10 MV beams. CUSUM charts detected offsets in the readings. The Ishikawa chart exhaustively included the possible errors that lead to loss of control.
conclusionSPC is proven to be effective for detection of loss in control in machine QA. The Ishikawa chart provides the set of probable root causes of machine error useful while troubleshooting.
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