Highly conformal radiotherapy techniques, such as stereotactic radiosurgery and stereotactic ablative radiotherapy, require steep dose fall-off to spare organs at risk (OARs). The dose-volume histogram (DVH) provides limited spatial information, whereas the dose gradient curve (DGC) offers quantitative assessment of dose fall-off but has seen limited clinical use due to time-consuming manual processing....
No actionable change for audiologists; this article concerns a radiotherapy planning quality-assurance tool with no direct relevance to hearing health or audiology practice.
Tangentially relevant to audiology only in the context of ototoxicity (medication- or radiation-related hearing damage) monitoring in head-and-neck cancer patients; the tool itself is a radiation oncology decision-support system.
- 01An automated platform was developed to analyse dose-gradient curves and dose-volume histograms in radiotherapy.
- 02The tool was validated against TG-119 datasets, a radiotherapy quality-assurance benchmark.
- 03Clinical decision support focus is radiation oncology, not audiology.
- 04Minimal direct relevance to hearing health or audiological practice.
- 05Published in Frontiers in Oncology.
The automated platform was validated using TG-119 radiotherapy datasets.
studysupported- PMID
- 42245709
- DOI
- 10.3389/fonc.2026.1826856.