COURSE UNIT TITLE

: QUALITY ASSURANCE IN RADIOTHERAPY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MDF 6025 QUALITY ASSURANCE IN RADIOTHERAPY ELECTIVE 2 2 0 9

Offered By

Medical Physics

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Medical Physics

Course Objective

Acceptance testing, preparation of quality control forms, treatment quality control of linear accelerators, teletherapy machines, sources used in brachytherapy and afterloading devices, robotic radiosurgery devices, simulators, CT-Simulator and treatment planning computer systems used in Radiation Oncology.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Having the knowledge of the quality standards of radiotherapy equipment.
2   Having the knowledge of tests for quality assurance in radiotherapy devices.
3   Having the knowledge of the daily, monthly and annual quality control tests required to maintain quality assurance
4   Having the knowledge of the control tests for treatment planning system
5   Having the knowledge of the quality controls of the patients treatment

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Terms of quality control and quality assurance Preparation of quality control forms
2 Mechanical and imaging tests in the treatment simulator. The limits of accuracy in radiotherapy, ISO 9000 and QART.
3 Controls in CT device. Control of the optical cursor, field and angle of rotation, the position of the bed in treatment simulators
4 Quality control of CT SIM device Control of the accuracy of the automatic set-up positioning in CT SIM device.
5 Quality assurance of the Co-60 and the linear accelerator LEDs, light-ray field area, timer control, dose efficiency measurements in Co-60 and Linac.
6 Control of photon and electron dose efficiency, and comprehension of protocols for Linac. Gain settings
7 Controls of asymmetric fields, dynamic wedges, MLC Controls of asymmetric fields, dynamic wedges, MLC
8 Maintaining accuracy in conformal radiotherapy, geometric accuracy. Accuracy in conformal radiotherapy
9 Quality control in IMRT The tools used for the verification of IMRT and treatment verification
10 Plan control in Brachyteraphy Activity controls, applicators elections, entrance control
11 Quality control and acceptance testing of TPS. Quality control of treatment planning process
12 The data entered into the treatment planning system and control of the data Quality control of devices in obtaining the beam data.
13 Accuracy in treatment delivery, in-vivo dosimetry Control of the data transferred between TPS and devices, and in-vivo dosimetry during treatment
14 Quality control in robotic radiosurgery device Dose and robot movement control in robotic

Recomended or Required Reading

Khan FM. The physics of radiation therapy , Second, Third and Fourth Edition. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, 1994, 2003, 2009.
Khan FM, Gerbi BJ. Treatment Planning in Radiation Oncology , Second and Third Edition. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, 2007, 2012
Edward C. Halperin, Carlos A. Perez, Luther W. Brady Principles and Practice of Radiation Oncology Third, Fourth and Fifth Edition. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, 1997, 2003, 2008.
Wolfgang Schlegel, Thomas Bortfeld, Anca-Ligia Grosu New Technologies in Radiation Oncology Springer, 2006.
Steve Webb, Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy Taylor and Francis, 2001.
Arro J. Mundt, John C. Roeske Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy 2005.
P.Mayles, A.Nahum, J.C.Rasenwald Handbook Of Radiotherapy Physics Theory and Practice Taylor and Francis, 2007.
Pam Cherry, Angela M. Duxbury Practical Radiotherapy Physics And Equipment Wiley- Blackwell, 2009.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Using all available technical and dosimetric equipment to make the relevant applications in radiotherapy after having theoretical knowledge about the subject from Turkish and foreign books, periodicals and protocols.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FIN* 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + RST* 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Tutorials 14 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 8 112
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 25 25
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 215

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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