Table 10.
Papers presenting gel dosimetry treatment verifications together with the gel type, the volume of the volumetric gel phantom, the spatial resolution (voxel size), the dimension of the gel measured dose distribution, the comparison dosimeter and the evaluation quantity. For the treatment modality, ‘IMRT’ stands for intensity-modulated radiation therapy, ‘SRS’ stands for stereotactic radiosurgery and ‘IMAT’ stands for intensity-modulated arc therapy. For the comparison dosimeters, ‘TPS’ stands for treatment planning system, ‘TLD’ stands for thermoluminescence dosimeter, ‘IC’ stands for ionization chamber, ‘DD’ stands for diamond detector and ‘OPT’ stands for optical-CT. With the evaluation quantities, ‘DTA’ stands for distance-to-agreement, ‘PAVD’ stands for percentage average dose deviation, ‘sys dev’ stands for systematic deviation, ‘rmsd’ stands for root-mean-square deviation, ‘gamma’ stands for the gamma index. The values in brackets next to the DTA represent the isodose levels for which the DTA was calculated.
| Author | Treatment | Gel type | Volume | Resolution | Dim. | Comp. | Evaluation quantity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ibbott et al (1997) | Gamma knife | BANG-2 | – | 1.9 × 0.95 × 3 mm3 | 2D | TPS | DTA |
| Oldham et al (1998) | IMRT | PAG | 0.66 l | 0.8 × 0.8 × 5 mm3 | 2D | TPS | DTA (D = 50%, 90%) |
| De Deene et al (1998) | IMRT | PAG | 3 l | 1.6 × 1.6 × 5 mm3 | 2D | Film | PAVD |
| Low et al (1999) | IMRT | BANG | 2 l | 1 × 1 × 3 mm3 | 2D | TPS, TLD | Gamma |
| Cosgrove et al (2000) | Conformal | BANG-1 | 0.5 l | 1 × 1 × 5 mm3 | 2D | TPS | sys dev |
| Ertl et al (2000) | Gamma knife | BANG-1 | 0.03 l | 0.23 × 0.23 × 1 mm3 | 2D | TPS, film | – |
| De Deene et al (2000) | IMRT | PAG | 3 l | 0.47 × 0.47 × 5 mm3 | 3D | TPS, film | DTA, rmsd |
| Grebe et al (2001) | SRS | BANG | 2.2 l | 0.78 × 0.78 × 3 mm3 | 2D | TPS, IC | DTA (D = 90%), rmsd |
| Oldham et al (2001) | SRS | BANG-3 | 0.3 l | 1 × 1 × 2 mm3 | 2D | TPS, OPT | – |
| Pappas et al (2001) | SRS | VIPAR | 0.06 l | 0.27 × 0.27 × 5 mm3 | 1D | TPS, film, IC | – |
| Audet et al (2002) | SRS | PAG | 0.8 l | sl. th. = 3 mm | 2D | TPS | DTA (D = 50%, 80%) |
| Novotny et al (2002) | SRS | PAG-2 | 0.05 l | 0.5 × 0.5 × 2 mm3 | 2D | TPS | sys dev |
| Watanabe et al (2002) | SRS | BANG-3 | 2.2 l | 0.95 × 0.95 × 3 mm3 | 2D | TPS | Shift |
| Scheib and Gianolini (2002) | Gamma knife | BANG | 0.04 l | 1.13 × 1.13 × 1.1 mm3 | 2D | TPS | – |
| Vergote et al (2003) | IMRT | PAG | 2.4 l | 1 × 1 × 6 mm3 | 3D | TPS, DD | Gamma, rmsd |
| Duthoy et al (2003) | IMAT | PAG | 9.5 l | 2.5 × 2.5 × 5 mm3 | 3D | TPS | Gamma |
| Love et al (2003) | IMRT | PAG | 2.8 l | 1 × 1 × 5 mm3 | 2D | TPS | – |
| Gustavsson et al (2003) | IMRT | MAGIC | 1.5 l | 1 × 1 × 3 mm3 | 3D | TPS | Gamma |
| Vergote et al (2004b) | IMAT | PAG | 10 l | 2.5 × 2.5 × 5 mm3 | 3D | TPS | Gamma |
| Duthoy et al (2004) | IMAT | PAG | 10 l | 2.5 × 2.5 × 5 mm3 | 3D | TPS | Gamma |
| Sandilos et al (2004) | IMRT | VIPAR | 1.6 l | 0.75 × 0.75 × 3 mm3 | 3D | TPS | – |
| Papagiannis et al (2005) | Gamma knife | PABIG | 0.17 l | 1 × 1 × 1 mm3 | 3D | TPS | – |
| Karaiskos et al (2005) | Gamma knife | VIPAR | 0.17 l | 1 × 1 × 1 mm3 | 3D | TPS | – |