A National Multi-Institutional Study to Assess Dosimetric Consistency in Treatment Planning of Prostate Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT)

Introduction: The Italian Association of Medical Physics (AIFM) created a working group to assess planning homogeneity between different technologies and among different Italian centers to compare and evaluate SBRT plans for prostate cancer. The purpose was to compare inter-institutional variations in clinically acceptable dose distributions with variation in the treatment planning and delivery apparatus, to assess dosimetric consistency among different hospitals.