Preliminary Study on the Use of Fricke Gel Dosimeter for Verification of IMRT Beam Delivery
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Abstract
The goal of intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) is to deliver a uniform dose to the tumor with minimal margins around the target, in order to increase local control of the disease while reducing secondary effects. The research performed in this work has shown the potential usefulness of the Fricke-gel dosimeter as a quality assurance (QA) tool to verify IMRT treatments produced by inverse treatment planning. First, the 3D integrating Fricke-gel dosimeter was successfully compared to an accepted dosimetric tool. It was then used to measure relative 3D dose distributions of simple treatment plans with multiple square or rectangular fields and specific inverse-planned IMRT treatment plans. By combining the CT anatomical information and the plan contours with the gel-measured data, it was possible to display the contours on the measured dose and the measured isodose lines on the CT, in addition to measuring dose-volume histograms (DVH) for the plans. This demonstrated the usefulness of the gel dosimeter as a QA tool for IMRT and inverse planning.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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