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ArticleMedical physics2025

AAPM task group report 135.B: Quality assurance for robotic radiosurgery.

Lei Wang, Martina Descovich, Ellen E Wilcox, Jun Yang, Alan B Cohen, Christoph Fuerweger, Anand Prabhu, Jeffrey A Garrett, David D Taylor, Matt Noll and 1 more

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Article in Medical physics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Lei WangStanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.
Martina DescovichUniversity of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
Ellen E WilcoxVancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Jun YangChanCheng Hospital, Foshan, Guangdong, China.
Alan B CohenGenesisCare USA, Inc., Yellville, Arkansas, USA.
Christoph FuerwegerEuropean Radiosurgery Center Munich, München, Germany.
Anand PrabhuRiverview Medical Center (Hackensack Meridian Health), Red Bank, New Jersey, USA.
Jeffrey A GarrettVarian Advanced Oncology Services, Palo Alto, California, USA.
David D TaylorGrand Junction, Colorado, USA.
Matt NollAccuray Inc., Sunnyvale, California, USA.
Sonja DieterichUC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

AAPM Task Group Report 135.B covers new technology components that have been added to an established radiosurgery platform and updates the components that were not well covered in the previous report. Considering the current state of the platform, this task group (TG) is a combination of a foundational task group to establish the basis for new processes/technology and an educational task group updating guidelines on the established components of the platform. Because the technology discussed in this document has a relatively small user base compared to C-arm isocentric linacs, the authors chose to emphasize the educational components to assist medical physicists who are new to the technology and have not had the opportunity to receive in-depth vendor training at the time of reading this report. The TG has developed codes of practice, introduced QA, and developed guidelines which are generally expected to become enduring practice. This report makes prescriptive recommendations as there has not been enough longitudinal experience with some of the new technical components to develop a data-based risk analysis.

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Quality Assurance, Health CareRadiosurgeryHumansQuality ControlResearch ReportRoboticsRobotic Surgical Proceduresimage guided SBRTimage guided SRSrobotic radio‐surgery

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PMID39453412
PMCPMC11700000

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