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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Jan 5.
Published in final edited form as: Med Phys. 2023 Jul 14;50(9):5375–5386. doi: 10.1002/mp.16625

TABLE 2.

Efficiency analysis of each framework component using the mean execution time. Note that in Element 9–10, the dose calculation time also includes some other prerequisite process time, such as contour integrity check, material overlap check, and so forth, which is hard to time separately.

Component Action HN (sec) Lung (sec) Prostate (sec)
Element 2 Import CBCT to TPS 7.1 ± 0.2 7.4 ± 0.3 7.5 ± 0.2
Element 3 Deform CBCT to planning CT 16.6 ± 2.8 15.6 ± 1.8 15.5 ± 4.0
Element 4 Generate cCBCT 18.0 ± 2.1 17.6 ± 1.6 18.6 ± 2.0
Element 5 Find CTVs 0.5 ± 0.06 0.3 ± 0.04 0.3 ± 0.06
Find body structure 0.3 ± 0.05 0.1 ± 0.01 0.1 ± 0.02
Deform planning CT to cCBCT 16.6 ± 2.8 15.6 ± 1.8 15.5 ± 4.0
Element 6 Find contour structures 2.6 ± 0.7 2.4 ± 1.7 1.6 ± 0.2
Map contour structures 6.2 ± 2.9 10.2 ± 2.6 9.9 ± 6.4
Element 7 Generate vCT 15.5 ± 1.6 15.5 ± 0.8 17.2 ± 2.3
Element 8 Copy contour structures 1.6 ± 0.5 1.1 ± 0.2 1.0 ± 0.2
Element 9- Compute Monte Carlo dose using cCBCT 30.9 ± 10.1 25.9 ± 2.4 33.9 ± 9.1
10 Compute Monte Carlo dose using vCT 30.6 ± 11.0 25.8 ± 2.4 34.3 ± 9.2
Total time Use cCBCT for online evaluation 1.6 ± 0.4 (min) 1.6 ± 0.2 (min) 1.7 ± 0.4 (min)
Use vCT for online evaluation 1.9 ± 0.4 (min) 1.9 ± 0.2 (min) 2.0 ± 0.5 (min)