15 Entries
Insights on 'decluttering' Quality Management for radiation therapy
As the Clatterbridge Cancer Centre was preparing to expand to a third site, their Medical Physics department targeted improvement and innovation across the patient QA workflow while removing subjectivity and manual analysis from image-based machine QA.
In this issue, hear from one of their physicists how that decision has enabled Clatterbridge to bring organization, standardization and efficiency to their workflows.
October 7, 2021
A Short Sun Nuclear History Lesson
Recently, Sun Nuclear founder Bill Simon, M.S., gave a virtual tour of some of our solutions, with background on the evolution of Machine and Patient QA over the years, and a small, but significant, innovation.
September 2, 2021
How AAPM's TG-218 supports an emerging best practice for Patient QA
For this newsletter, we spoke with Sun Nuclear medical physicist Jason Tracy, M.S., DABR, RT(T), about how sites seeking ACR accreditation or re-accreditation can prepare for the TG-218 requirement, and what this means for the field as a whole.
July 29, 2021
The growing literature and expanding versatility of SRS MapCHECK
Since its release in the spring of 2018, SRS MapCHECK® has been adopted by nearly 500 clinical users worldwide for fast and accurate film-less stereotactic Patient QA. In this newsletter, we cover the expanding capabilities of SRS MapCHECK and the growing collection of literature from clinical users.
July 4, 2021
Building a linac-based SRS program
In this issue, we're focused on practical approaches to building strong, end-to-end stereotactic programs.
May 26, 2021