Professional guideline
Radiation Therapy Oncology Group: radiosurgery quality assurance guidelines
Shaw E, Kline R, Gillin M, et al. · Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG)
DoseLab summary
RTOG task-force guidelines for radiosurgery quality assurance, setting out a standard data set and minor and major protocol deviations. The paper itself is paywalled; DoseLab checked its conformity, coverage and homogeneity definitions as quoted in Kataria 2012 and Menon 2018. Citation checked against Crossref.
Why this is useful
Where the RTOG conformity index (prescription isodose volume ÷ target volume), quality of coverage and homogeneity index (maximum dose ÷ prescription) come from.
Reference details
- Title
- Radiation Therapy Oncology Group: radiosurgery quality assurance guidelines
- Authors / organization
- Shaw E, Kline R, Gillin M, et al. · Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG)
- Publication / protocol
- Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 1993;27(5):1231–1239
- Version
- Pending verification
- Year
- 1993
- DOI
- 10.1016/0360-3016(93)90548-a
- Disease sites
- CNS / Brain
- Topics
- Plan Evaluation, SRS, RTOG, Conformity, Homogeneity
- Fractionation context
- Single fraction (radiosurgery)
- Last reviewed by DoseLab
- Pending verification