Treatment log files as a tool to identify treatment plan sensitivity to inaccuracies in scanned proton beam delivery

Dose distributions delivered at Gantry 2 at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) can be reconstructed on the patient anatomy based on machine log files. With the present work, the dependency of the log file calculation on the planning optimization technique and on other planning parameters, such as field direction and tumour size, has been investigated. Interestingly, and despite the typically higher modulation of Intensity Modulated Proton Therapy (IMPT) plans, the results for both Single Field Uniform Distribution and IMPT approaches have been found to be similar.

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