A dedicated cloud system for real-time upfront quality assurance in pediatric radiation therapy
- 25 April 2019
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Strahlentherapie und Onkologie
- Vol. 195 (9) , 843-850
Abstract
Pediatric radiotherapy (RT) is a highly specialized field, requiring great experience to delineate correctly tumor targets and organs at risk. To reduce treatment failures related to planning inaccuracies and to obtain robust clinical results despite the limited numbers of enrolled pediatric patients, the SIOP PNET5MB clinical trial on medulloblastoma requires a real-time, pre-radiation review of the RT treatment (craniospinal irradiation and boost plan) under the direct responsibility of the national coordinator center. Here we describe the centralized radiotherapy quality assurance (QA) program developed in Italy for this purpose.Keywords
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