Evidence map›Paper›PMID 39600111›Full record

ArticleJournal of applied clinical medical physics2025

Development of dedicated phantom for end-to-end testing of multiple image-guidance configurations incorporating light-section-based surface guidance system.

Naoki Hayashi, Tatsunori Saito, Kazuki Ouchi, Hiroshi Amma, Yuta Muraki, Keisuke Yasui, Masashi Nozue

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Journal of applied clinical medical physics, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Naoki HayashiDivision of Medical Physics, School of Medical Sciences, Fujita Health University, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1720-3651
Tatsunori SaitoDepartment of Radiology, Seirei Hamamatsu General Hospital, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan.
Kazuki OuchiDepartment of Radiology, Japanese Red Cross Aichi Medical Center Nagoya Daiichi Hospital, Nagoya, Japan.
Hiroshi AmmaDepartment of Radiology, Seirei Hamamatsu General Hospital, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan.
Yuta MurakiDepartment of Radiology, Seirei Hamamatsu General Hospital, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan.
Keisuke YasuiDivision of Medical Physics, School of Medical Sciences, Fujita Health University, Toyoake, Aichi, Japan.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5581-463X
Masashi NozueDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Seirei Hamamatsu General Hospital, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeRadiotherapy devices with multiple image-guidance systems, such as surface-guided radiation therapy (SGRT), have been widely used in recent years. However, in the case of SGRT devices using the light-section method, coordinate coincidence evaluation using a phantom for SGRT devices with patterned light projection is not appropriate. Hence, this study aims to develop a dedicated phantom able to evaluate both the detection accuracy and coordinate coincidence of multiple IGRT configurations, including light-section-based SGRT devices. MATERIALS AND

methodFirst, we developed an end-to-end (E2E) phantom that can be scanned by CT and detected by a light-section-method-based SGRT device. Second, the detection accuracy of the phantom under three reference data acquisition conditions was evaluated using the E2E phantom. The three conditions were a body surface image detected by VOXELAN in the simulation CT room, a body surface image reconstructed from the volume data of the simulation CT room, and a body surface image acquired by VOXELAN in the radiotherapy room. Finally, the coordinate coincidence of the image-guidance system was evaluated using the E2E phantom.

resultUpon comparing detection accuracy among the three reference data acquisition methods, we found that the reference data generated in the CT room had the largest error (0.58 mm at maximum). The coordinate coincidences of the multiple image-guidance systems were within 1 mm for all components after the maintenance of VOXELAN using E2E phantom. Furthermore, the long-term direction stability was worse in the longitudinal direction.

conclusionThe new E2E phantom can be used to evaluate the detection accuracy of a light-section-based SGRT system and the coordinate coincidence using a Winston-Lutz-based method in multiple image-guided configurations. The detection accuracy in the three different reference images of VOXELAN using this phantom improved to within 1 mm in all directions.

Indexed as

Image Processing, Computer-AssistedPhantoms, ImagingRadiotherapy DosageRadiotherapy, Image-GuidedRadiotherapy Planning, Computer-AssistedTomography, X-Ray ComputedAlgorithmsHumansNeoplasmsRadiotherapy, Intensity-Modulatedcoordinate coincidenceend‐to‐end testinglight‐section methodquality assurancesurface‐guided radiation therapy

Identifiers

PMID39600111
PMCPMC11712516

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.