When performing a therapy PET/CT scan, efficient and effective communication between the various teams and the patient is essential. Each modality has its own specific patient preparation, and these need to be combined to ensure that both the PET scan and the CT scan are of the best ...
Special emphasis is given to patient assessment and to patient preparation. The purpose of this review is not to create a compendium of steps that one must slavishly perform before each surgical procedure. Instead, it represents an effort to emphasize the importance of adequate preoperative ...
The PSI delivery system currently in use, namely GANTRY 1, is build for remote positioning [7]. Before each fraction, patient fixation to the treatment table is performed in a dedicated treatment preparation room. The table is then moved, using a dedicated transporter, and coupled to the CT ...
“myQA®iON provides a high level of automation and an easy overview of all patient QA tasks. We added some scripts to our TPS to automatically send the DICOM data to myQA iON as soon as a plan is approved. myQA iON calculates the dose and evaluates the data during the preparation work...
Radiation Therapy for treatment of soft tissue sarcoma in adults: executive summary of an ASTRO Clinical Practice Guideline. Practical Radiation Oncology. 2021;11(5):339–51. Article PubMed Google Scholar Yang GQ, Yuan ZM, Welsh E, Ahmed KA, Torres-Roca JF, Naghavi AO. Intrinsic ...
Standardization of procedures for patient preparation in oncological FDG-PET/CT imaging is ex- tremely important to obtain high-quality images, to decrease false-negative and false-positive findings and to reduce the patient radiation dose as much as possible. 展开 ...
Surgery is the standard care for patients with early-stage lung cancer, and stereotactic body radiation therapy is an option for those who are medically inoperable or refuse surgery. Medical developments in diagnostic and therapeutic strategies would pro
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