Table 1.
Maximum times required to generate the dose distribution necessary to perform the quality assurance tasks. The tasks highlighted with (*) have the potential to be automated with dedicated routines handling the data flow between TPS and external software.
| (A) Water Maximum time [min] |
(B) Bulk densities Maximum time [min] |
Reference sCT and (C) Separate NN Maximum time [min] |
(D) dCT Maximum time [min] |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Export MR (*) | – | – | 2 min | – |
| Generate CT DICOM | – | – | 1 min (*) | 30 min |
| Import DICOM (*) | – | – | 2 min | 2 min |
| Register CT-MR | – | – | – | 5 min |
| Contour (*) | – | 17.5 min | – | 5 min |
| Generate ED map (*) | 1 min | 1 min | 1 min | 1 min |
| Calculate dose (*) | 1 min | 1 min | 1 min | 1 min |
| Total | 2 min | 19.5 min | 7 min | 44 min |