What is it about?
We describe a procedure carried out every day on each of the proton beam therapy (PBT) gantries before start of patient treatments that give us the highest degree of confidence, that it is safe to treat patients that day. It takes radiation therapist approximately 10 minutes each day to carry out this procedure.
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Why is it important?
PBT gantries are a scarce resource. Time spent in the PBT gantries for daily QA cannot be used for patient treatments.
Perspectives
James Younkin, the first author of this publication is a Medical Physics Assistant at Mayo Clinic in Arizona. He was instrumental in developing this procedure.
Martin Bues
Mayo Foundation
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This page is a summary of: Technical Note: An efficient daily QA procedure for proton pencil beam scanning, Medical Physics, February 2018, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/mp.12787.
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