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DoseView™ 3D — what the literature says.

Four real anchor citations across the workflow the DoseView 3D is bought for — linac beam-data commissioning and annual QA under the AAPM TG-106 framework. Covers the head-to-head 4-tank scanning-system comparison where DoseView came out on top on inter-variability (Akino 2014), the peer-reviewed 4-tank mechanical + dosimetric cross-comparison (Saenz 2016), the AAPM TG-106 framework paper the scanning phantom is engineered against (Das 2008), and a practical FFF-linac commissioning study exemplifying the workflow (Narayanasamy 2016). Every DOI + journal reference verified; all open-access URLs.

0.08 %DoseView 3D inter-variability deeper than dmax — lowest of 4 (Akino 2014)
≤ 0.1 mmmechanical precision across the 4-tank cross-comparison (Saenz 2016)
< 1 %AAPM TG-106 target beam-data measurement error the phantom is engineered against
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Inter-variability vs reference (deeper than dmax) — Akino 2014
DoseView 3D
0.08 %
Comparator · 3D water tank
0.13 %
Reference · 3D water tank
0.16 %
Head-to-head · 4 tanks2014
0.08 %DoseView 3D inter-variability deeper than dmax — lowest of the four commercial scanning systems tested in Akino 2014. Half the reference figure; ~ 40 % below the second-place tank in the cohort

Intra- and intervariability in beam data commissioning among water phantom scanning systems

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics 15(4):251 – 258 (open access) — Akino, Gibbons, Neck, Chu, Das

4-tank cross-comparison — Saenz 2016
≤ 0.1 mm
mechanical precision (caliper-verified)
SD < 0.1
reproducibility across the axis range
Semiflex 31010
PTW chamber · 0.125 cc reference
Four commercial 3D scanning water tanks — DoseView 3D and three named comparators — measured on a linac platform using a reference cylindrical ion chamber (0.125 cc semiflex-class). Establishes the peer-reviewed mechanical + PDD + profile envelope every clinical scanning phantom is measured against.
Cross-comparison · mechanical2016
≤ 0.1 mmMechanical precision across all four scanning tanks — including DoseView 3D — held within 0.1 mm caliper-verified position at every axis point tested. Standard deviation of reproducibility below 0.1 mm; the mechanical envelope every peer-reviewed scanning system operates inside

Commissioning and cross-comparison of four scanning water tanks

International Journal of Cancer Therapy and Oncology 4(4):4423 (open access) — Saenz, Roring, Gutiérrez, Papanikolaou, Kirby, Stathakis

AAPM TG-106 · scanning-phantom framework
< 1 %
target beam-data measurement error
IC · Diode · Diamond
detector-selection guidance
PDD + Profiles
commissioning-data scope
TG-106 is the reference framework for clinical scanning-phantom-based linac commissioning worldwide. The "< 1 %" target the report sets is what every clinical scanning system's vendor claim has to be measured against.
Framework · TG-1062008
< 1 %AAPM TG-106 target measurement-error ceiling for water-phantom-based beam-data commissioning. Establishes detector-selection guidance (ion chamber / diode / diamond), phantom set-up methodology, scan-direction + step-size + averaging rules, and beam-data processing conventions. The framework the DoseView 3D is engineered against

Accelerator beam data commissioning equipment and procedures — Report of the AAPM Task Group 106

Medical Physics 35(9):4186 – 4215 (AAPM open PDF) — Das, Cheng, Watts, Ahnesjö, Gibbons, Li, Lowenstein, Mitra, Simon, Zhu (AAPM TG-106)

FFF commissioning · Narayanasamy 2016
+3 mm
FFF-vs-flat dmax deepening (10 × 10)
4.4 %
FFF flatness variation vs flattened beam
≤ 1 mm
gantry / collimator / couch isocentricity
FFF beams have deeper dmax + non-flat lateral profiles that require the scanning-phantom acquisition chain to resolve dose gradients cleanly. Cross-plane penumbra ~ 2 mm larger than in-plane across all energies. MLC transmission 0.5-0.6 % (compliant with ≤ 1 %).
Applied · FFF linac commissioning2016
FFF vs flatPractical FFF + flattened-beam commissioning of a modern flattening-filter-free linac using a 3-axis scanning water phantom — full PDD + profile + penumbra + isocentricity + MLC-transmission data set delivered end-to-end. The workflow the DoseView 3D is bought for on any modern FFF-capable linac platform

Commissioning an Elekta Versa HD linear accelerator

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics 17(1):179 – 191 (open access) — Narayanasamy, Saenz, Cruz, Ha, Papanikolaou, Stathakis

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Standards, Regulator + Background Reading

AAPM + IAEA reference-framework papers the scanning-phantom acquisition chain sits inside, plus the clinical-workflow whitepaper.

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AAPM TG-106 — Accelerator beam data commissioning equipment and procedures

Task Group 106 open-access PDF from aapm.org — the reference framework for water-phantom-based linac commissioning including detector selection, phantom set-up, scan protocols, PDD + profile acquisition and the < 1 % measurement-error target.

Reference · AAPMDownload
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AAPM TG-51 — Photon and electron reference dosimetry protocol

AAPM Task Group 51 reference-dosimetry protocol — the absolute-dose calibration the beam-data set is anchored against once the water phantom has acquired the relative-dose profiles.

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IAEA TRS-398 — Absorbed Dose Determination in External Beam Radiotherapy

IAEA Code of Practice for absorbed-dose determination based on standards of absorbed dose to water. The international parallel of TG-51; applies to photon, electron, proton + heavy-ion scanning-phantom beam-data acquisition.

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AAPM TG-142 — Quality assurance of medical accelerators

Task Group 142 report on daily / monthly / annual QA of medical linacs — the annual-QA cadence the DoseView 3D is deployed against (annual output constancy, PDD + profile drift, small-field commissioning re-check).

Reference · AAPMDownload
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DoseView 3D — Precision & efficiency clinical-physicist workflow

Real-world commissioning workflow with DoseView 3D — Semon-Pomposelli, M.S., DABR. Manufacturer-hosted white paper.

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