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The Jacobian as a measure of planar dose congruence

Medical Physics 2015-05-13 v1

Abstract

We propose a new starting point for comparing dose distributions in therapeutic radiation physics using a Jacobian-based measure. The measure is normalization independent, free of tunable parameters, bounded and converges to a unique value when comparing unrelated dose distributions. We present a preliminary demonstration of the sensitivity and general characteristics of this measure.

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@article{arxiv.0712.1075,
  title  = {The Jacobian as a measure of planar dose congruence},
  author = {L. D. Paniak and P. M. Charland},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.1075},
  year   = {2015}
}

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9 pages, 2 figures