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Implementation of the structural SIMilarity (SSIM) index as a quantitative evaluation tool for dose distribution error detection

Jiayuan Peng, Chengyu Shi, Eric Laugeman, Weigang Hu, Zhen Zhang, Sasa Mutic, Bin Cai

Medical Physics · 2020 · 59 citations · 19 references

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Abstract

The correlation between the subcomponents of the SSIM index and the error types of the dose distribution were established. The SSIM index provides additional error information compared to that provided by gamma analysis.

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