Keywords:
Professional Issues, Oncology, Professional issues, Cone beam CT, Radiation therapy / Oncology, Neoplasia, Radiotherapy techniques, Prospective, Cross-sectional study, Not applicable
Authors:
S. I. Rodrigues1, J. SOUSA2, L. P. Ribeiro2, A. F. Abrantes2, R. P. P. Almeida3, J. Pinheiro4, M. Ramos2, F. Serra2; 1Faro, Fa/PT, 2FARO/PT, 3Faro /PT, 4sao bras/PT
DOI:
10.26044/ecr2020/C-13720
Methods and materials
A group of 42 patients with pelvic tumors, including malignant neoplasms of the prostate, cervix, endometrium, rectal, or secondary neoplasms of bone and bone marrow, were clinically stable were treated in supine position (OmniBoard™, Figure 1) with possible indexing of tibiotarsal support, popliteal support, arm support and cervical support. All indexed supports are adjusted to the anatomy of the patient, in order to provide the most comfortable and stable treatment position, and to allow greater reproducibility success.
Three different instruments were used for data collection: Patient comfort and stability it was analyzed with a questionnaire, denominated “Patient comfort visual analogue scale”(4) ; in order to better characterize the integral sample, a demographic and clinical questionnaire was adapted and filled out using the information contained in the Aria software; systematic review of the image verification of the treatment position using the portal images (acquired in Varian clinac accelerators) compared to Digitally Reconstructed Radiographs (DRR) in computerized planning system Eclipse from CT scans to plan the treatment and between the cone beam computed tomography (acquired in True Beam ) and the CT scans to plan the treatment.