NCS Report 13: Quality control in brachytherapy: Current practice and minimum requirements

Elfrink, R.J.M.; Kleffens, H.J. van; Kolkman-Deurloo, I.K.K.; Aalbers, A.H.L.; Dries, Wim; Rijnders, A.; Schaeken, B.; Venselaar, J.L.M.

doi:10.25030/ncs-013

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“…TPSs should be compatible with these generic models and facilitate the MBDCA commissioning by implementing the tools necessary to perform an in-depth comparison of the 3D dose distributions. Finally, TPSs must easily perform the quality control tests suggested in the guidelines [ 29 , 30 , 31 ].…”

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Review on Treatment Planning Systems for Cervix Brachytherapy (Interventional Radiotherapy): Some Desirable and Convenient Practical Aspects to Be Implemented from Radiation Oncologist and Medical Physics Perspectives

Otal

Celada²,

Chimeno

et al. 2022

Cancers

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Intracavitary brachytherapy (BT, Interventional Radiotherapy, IRT), plays an essential role in the curative intent of locally advanced cervical cancer, for which the conventional approach involves external beam radiotherapy with concurrent chemotherapy followed by BT. This work aims to review the different methodologies used by commercially available treatment planning systems (TPSs) in exclusive magnetic resonance imaging-based (MRI) cervix BT with interstitial component treatments. Practical aspects and improvements to be implemented into the TPSs are discussed. This review is based on the clinical expertise of a group of radiation oncologists and medical physicists and on interactive demos provided by the software manufacturers. The TPS versions considered include all the new tools currently in development for future commercial releases. The specialists from the supplier companies were asked to propose solutions to some of the challenges often encountered in a clinical environment through a questionnaire. The results include not only such answers but also comments by the authors that, in their opinion, could help solve the challenges covered in these questions. This study summarizes the possibilities offered nowadays by commercial TPSs, highlighting the absence of some useful tools that would notably improve the planning of MR-based interstitial component cervix brachytherapy.

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Review on Treatment Planning Systems for Cervix Brachytherapy (Interventional Radiotherapy): Some Desirable and Convenient Practical Aspects to Be Implemented from Radiation Oncologist and Medical Physics Perspectives

Otal

Celada²,

Chimeno

et al. 2022

Cancers

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“…NCS Report 7 [2] dealt with the calibration of high dose rate (HDR) sources. NCS Report 13 [3] gave general recommendations on the quality control (QC) of brachytherapy equipment.…”

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NCS Report 30: Code of Practice for Quality Assurance of Brachytherapy with Ir-192 Afterloaders

Steenhuizen¹,

Harbers²,

Hoffmann³

et al. 2018

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“…Doch oft lassen sich die veröffent-lichten Daten nicht vergleichen oder gemeinsam auswerten [39,40], da verschiedene Dosisgrößen und sehr unterschiedliche Methoden der Dosisspezifikation verwendet wurden. Zur Optimierung der intravaskulären Brachytherapie sind daher einheitliche Methoden der Dosisverordnung, der Protokollierung und des strahlentherapeutischen Berichts [28,34,38] sowie standardisierte Methoden der Strahlerkalibrierung und der dosimetrischen Qualitätssicherung [15,28,38] erforderlich.…”

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Optimale intravaskuläre Brachytherapie

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Lorenz

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NCS Report 13: Quality control in brachytherapy: Current practice and minimum requirements

Cited by 8 publications

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Review on Treatment Planning Systems for Cervix Brachytherapy (Interventional Radiotherapy): Some Desirable and Convenient Practical Aspects to Be Implemented from Radiation Oncologist and Medical Physics Perspectives

Review on Treatment Planning Systems for Cervix Brachytherapy (Interventional Radiotherapy): Some Desirable and Convenient Practical Aspects to Be Implemented from Radiation Oncologist and Medical Physics Perspectives

NCS Report 30: Code of Practice for Quality Assurance of Brachytherapy with Ir-192 Afterloaders

Optimale intravaskuläre Brachytherapie

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