Planning study
A simple scoring ratio to index the conformity of radiosurgical treatment plans. Technical note.
Paddick I
DoseLab summary
Technical note reviewing earlier radiosurgery conformity measures, showing that they can give false perfect scores, and deriving a new index that does not. The abstract was read in Europe PMC; the index's formula is checked as described in Menon 2018. Citation checked against Crossref.
Why this is useful
The origin of the Paddick conformity index — the measure that penalizes both missed target and irradiated normal tissue, so it cannot give a false perfect score.
Reference details
- Title
- A simple scoring ratio to index the conformity of radiosurgical treatment plans. Technical note.
- Authors / organization
- Paddick I
- Publication / protocol
- J Neurosurg. 2000;93 Suppl 3:219–222
- Version
- Pending verification
- Year
- 2000
- DOI
- 10.3171/jns.2000.93.supplement_3.0219
- Disease sites
- CNS / Brain
- Topics
- Plan Evaluation, SRS, Conformity
- Fractionation context
- Single fraction (radiosurgery)
- Last reviewed by DoseLab
- Pending verification