About the Authors

KiHoon Sung

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

novalis@gilhospital.com

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Gachon University Gil Medical Center, Gachon University School of Medicine, Incheon, Republic of Korea

Young Eun Choi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Gachon University Gil Medical Center, Gachon University School of Medicine, Incheon, Republic of Korea

Competing Interests

KiHoon Sung has a patent pending entitled "Evaluating method of radiotherapy plan", and the number is "10-2017-0016108", which is focused on the technique presented in this work to evaluate dose gradient. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.