12/03/2026
🎯23 Centers, One QA Phantom: Benchmarking SIMT SRS across European
🌐In collaboration with 23 radiotherapy centers across Germany, Austria and Switzerland, the PRIME phantom provided by RTsafe, equipped with ionization chamber and polymer gel dosimeters was used to evaluate variations in infrastructure, planning, delivery and QA for single-isocenter multitarget (SIMT) SRS.
🔎This study revealed notable differences in planning criteria, motion management, QA approaches and treatment platforms, underscoring the need for greater harmonization to improve reproducibility and patient safety
Standardized phantom-based testing can enable meaningful benchmarking across institutions and supports the development of best practices for complex treatments.
📌 Press here to read more 👉 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00066-025-02424-w
Purpose Single-isocenter multitarget stereotactic radiosurgery (SIMT SRS) offers enhanced clinical efficiency for treating multiple brain metastases. However, it introduces additional uncertainties, such as off-center dose and beam profile inaccuracies, as well as quality assurance (QA) challenges,....