Radiotherapy treatment planning systems. Pt. 1: Initial operation. Draft

The responsible national standardization body is the working committee NA 080-00-05 AA "Radiation Therapy" in the DIN Standards Committee Radiology (NAR). This draft standard describes test methods and test characteristics of the quality of an RTPS and specifies test conditions for their determination. These are used to represent the quality of an RTPS before commissioning and after changes to the RTPS that may have an influence on these test characteristics. The test characteristics take into account all areas of an RTPS. The draft standard describes test characteristics which allow to determine the quality of the RTPS with regard to the fulfillment of its properties guaranteed by the manufacturer after the adaptation of the system to the individual conditions of radiation therapy organization. Some of these test characteristics must demonstrate the constancy of the function of the RTPS when periodically inspected. The draft standard does not apply to RTPSs used for planning proton or light ion irradiations; however, significant portions of this draft standard may be used for such RTPSs. The draft standard does not describe any test characteristics for the quality of the RTPS with regard to its basic suitability. The basic suitability is guaranteed by the consideration of the IEC 62083 standard by the manufacturer. In particular, no special test characteristics are described for testing the quality of algorithms used. This draft standard does not include the initial testing of the entire radiation handling (system test). Atlas-based account finding is not part of the test.