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Summary

• Important to ensure DVH calculation is accurate as it is central to clinical decisions • Physicists should be familiar with the influence of different parameters on DVH construction • DVH construction should be tested (QC) • Clinical trials: – recording contouring practice? – DVH metric calculation methods? – Consistency among vendors? • DVH based QA metrics rather than g metrics?

Dublin 2018