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QA Symposium

2024 Presentations

Challenges in Safety & Quality Control

Keynote Presentation: ESTRO Initiatives to Improve Safety and Quality Throughout the Patient Treatment Course

Nuria Jornet, Ph.D., Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Spain

Developing a Voluntary Incident Reporting and Learning System and Defining Radiation Protection in Radiotherapy (ROSEIS)

Mary Coffey, RTT, Trinity College, Ireland

Cybersecurity Risks: Experience and Lessons from a Hospital Cyberattack

Carla Cases, BSc, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Spain

Before and After: Standardization of Machine QA, with Updates from 4-Year Study on IC PROFILER for Dosimetry Tests

David Barbee, Ph.D., DABR, NYU Langone Health, United States

Moving Towards Process-based Radiotherapy Quality Assurance Using Statistical Process Control

Vysakh Raveendran, Ph.D., Advanced Center for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC), Tata Memorial Hospital, India

EPID-Based In-Vivo Dosimetry

AAPM Task Group Report 307: Use of EPIDs for Patient-Specific IMRT and VMAT QA

Kyle Padgett, Ph.D., University of Miami Medical School, United States

IPEM Topical Report Guidance for the Clinical Implementation of Online Treatment Monitoring Solutions for IMRT/ VMAT

Simon Stevens, M.Sci., M.Sc., CSci, CMgr, DiplPEM, MIPEM, MInstP, ARCS, The London Clinic, UK

Validation and Quality Assurance of EPID Transit Dosimetry Algorithms

Marco Esposito, Ph.D., The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy

Assessing the Impact of Adaptations to the Clinical Workflow and Identifying Head and Neck Cancer Patients Needing Adaptive Radiotherapy Using Transit In-Vivo Dosimetry

Evy Bossuyt, M.Sc., Iridium Netwerk, Belgium

Assessing In-Vivo 2D Image Analysis Sensitivity in Breast Cancer Treatments Using PerFRACTION

Maria do Carmo Lopes, Ph.D., IPO Coimbra, Portugal

Testing PerFRACTION Transit In-Vivo Dosimetry Ability to Detect Delivery Errors on a Clinical Spine SBRT Case

Fátima María Leo Martínez, M.Sc., Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Spain

The Era of AI & Innovation

Al applications and QA of Al in Radiotherapy - Contouring, Pre-T QA and QA of FLASH

Michaël Claessens, Ph.D., Iridium Netwerk, Belgium

Looking to the Future of AI: How MDs Could Use AI to Write More Personalized Prescriptions/Carepaths

David Lindsay, Ph.D., Oncora Medical, Inc., United States

A Clinical Evaluation of the Performance of Five Commercial Artificial Intelligence Contouring Systems for Radiotherapy

Efstratios Karagiannis, M.D., Ph.D., KSGR, Switzerland

Artificial Intelligence and RT Workflows

Pauline Maury, Ph.D., Gustave Roussy, France

QA & Dosimetry for New Treatment Modalities

Latest Developments and Novel Clinical Uses for SGRT

Michael Tallhamer, M.Sc., DABR, AdventHealth Parker, United States

A Novel Platform for the QA of Synchrony Real-time Tumor Tracking Radiotherapy Systems

Roland Teboh Forbang, M.S., Ph.D., DABR, John Theurer Cancer Center, Hackensack Meridian Health, United States

Comprehensive QA Program in a MRI-LINAC System Using Sun Nuclear Tools

Matteo Galetto, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Italy

Novel QA Methods for SRS/SBRT and SIMT

Understanding Solid State Dosimeters and Their Increasing Role in Medical Physics Quality Assurance Measurements

Wesley Culberson, Ph.D., DABR, University of Wisconsin – Madison, United States

A Hybrid Method for Patient Specific QA for SRS and SBRT Cases Utilizing 3D Secondary Dose Verification as a Screening Tool

Remy Manigold, DMP, DABR, Scripps, United States

Systematic Evaluation of Spatial Resolution and Gamma Criteria for Quality Assurance with Detector Arrays in Stereotactic Radiosurgery

Mark Chofor, Ph.D., Sun Nuclear, a Mirion Medical Company, United States

Novel Multi-Isocenter Accuracy Testing and Patient Specific QA for Gyroscopic Radiosurgery System

Carlos Rodrigues, M.Sc., Mercurius Health, Portugal

Individual Target Dose Evaluation for SIMT Using SRS MapCHECK and Independent Monte Carlo

Justus Adamson, Ph.D., DABR, Duke University, United States