Table 6.
Summary of the individual and cumulative systematic and random uncertainties for the different components of the SRS/SRT treatment with the Brainlab ExacTrac system.
Uncer. | SRS/SRT Equipment | Type | Lat (mm) | Long (mm) | Vert (mm) | Roll (o) | Pitch (o) | Yaw (o) | Rad (mm) | ||||||
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Mask | Systematic | Depends on the mask manufactured for each patient as shown in Fig. 1. | ||||||||||||
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Setup | Random | Standard Deviation of Mean Quad Sum XC | ||||||||||||
|
Frame | Systematic | 0.18 |
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|
|
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2.52 | ||||||
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Localizer | Systematic |
|
|
0.03 |
|
0.00 |
|
0.36 | ||||||
|
X‐ray | Random | 0.20 | 0.18 | 0.16 | 0.26 | 0.20 | 0.19 | 0.16 | ||||||
|
Isocenter of MV beam | Systematic | 0.27 | 0.24 | 0.34 | n/a | n/a | n/a | |||||||
|
Isocenter of kV imager | Systematic | 0.15 |
|
0.21 | n/a | n/a | n/a | |||||||
|
Isocenter of IR system | Systematic | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | |||||||
|
Couch sag | Systematic | 0.85 | 0.01 |
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0.20 | n/a | 1.09 |