Speakers at the AAPM Annual Meeting described projects to reduce the overall cost of radiotherapy and bring affordable cancer care to all
Read article: Physicists innovate to close the global radiotherapy gap
Real-world clinical evaluation confirms that IBA Dosimetry’s myQA SRS provides a unique patient QA capability, verifying stereotactic treatment plans with film-class resolution and the proven workfl...
Read article: The myQA SRS detector: clinical validation to clinical application in SRS/SBRT patient QA
The full benefits of independent quality assurance can only be realized through open access to “vendor-provided data” from the treatment delivery system
Read article: Independent QA: open access to data drives continuous improvement in radiotherapy
Elekta is betting on big-data technologies and cloud-based software innovation to rewrite the rules of precision radiation medicine
Read article: ProKnow’s cloud-based architecture centralizes radiotherapy data while opening up user access
A brachytherapy eye plaque with gold shielding delivers conformal radiation to ocular tumours
Read article: Novel brachytherapy device treats eye cancer with intensity-modulated radiation
Patient-specific shielding based on CT images can reduce dose to healthy tissue during radiotherapy
Read article: Personalized 3D-printed shields protect healthy tissue during radiotherapy
Patient safety, enhanced treatment outcomes and workflow efficiency all follow when radiotherapy clinics implement a rigorous and independent approach to quality assurance
Read article: Reinforcing the case for independent QA in the radiation oncology clinic
Brainlab’s treatment planning software and patient imaging systems provide key building blocks in the stereotactic radiosurgery programme at Scripps MD Anderson Cancer Center
Read article: Automation and standardization: redefining best practice in stereotactic radiosurgery
Medical physicists from the Austrian particle therapy centre MedAustron explain how – and why – they’ve put an independent QA solution at the heart of their patient treatment programme
Read article: Reimagining patient-specific QA in proton and ion therapy facilities
Irradiation experiments suggest that oxygen depletion alone is not a suitable mechanism to explain the FLASH effect
Read article: FLASH radiotherapy: oxygen depletion is not the sole cause
