title: Automating checks of plan check automation.
abstract: While a few physicists have designed new plan check automation solutions for their clinics, fewer, if any, managed to adapt existing solutions. As complex and varied as the systems they check, these programs must gain the full confidence of those who would run them on countless patient plans. The present automation effort, planCheck, therefore focuses on versatility and ease of implementation and verification. To demonstrate this, we apply planCheck to proton gantry, stereotactic proton gantry, stereotactic proton fixed beam (STAR), and IMRT treatments.
authors.affiliation: Massachusetts General Hospital. thalabi@mgh.harvard.edu.
authors.forename: Tarek
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Halabi
authors.forename: Hsiao-Ming
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Lu
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001331:Automation; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D011880:Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted / Q000592:standards*; D050397:Radiotherapy, Intensity-Modulated / Q000592:standards*