The Radiotherapy department have treated their first patient using online-adaptive radiotherapy. This was the result of a large multidisciplinary team effort. This improves upon traditional radiotherapy by generating a new treatment plan for each day of the treatment, allowing the internal anatomy to be treated no matter if it has moved since the first patient…
Read MoreA full review of the quality control (QC) procedures for the Radiotherapy department’s six TrueBeam linear accelerators was completed in October 2020 by the Dosimetry team. QC procedures and schedules were redesigned to comply with recently published national guidance and the existing modular QC structure was further streamlined to accommodate the new and updated tests.…
Read MoreThe radiotherapy department have treated their first patient using the newly installed Varian ETHOS treatment machine. The machine is it the forefront of technology and will allow treatments to be adapted on a daily basis with the aim of improving the patient experience while also delivering significantly enhanced treatments. For more details visit the write…
Read MoreThe Radiotherapy services team were excited to take delivery of a groundbreaking (literally) radiotherapy machine last weekend – the first of its type in the UK. The Varian ‘ETHOS’ machine uses artificial intelligence to enhance cancer treatment by adapting treatments on a daily basis to optimize the delivery of radiotherapy. The machine will be up…
Read MoreThe European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology held a physics workshop on Quantitative Imaging within Radiotherapy and this was attended by Rob Julian from the Royal Surrey’s radiotherapy physics department. There were wide ranging discussions on the day and a summary of the outcomes has recently been published in The Green Journal and is Open Access making…
Read MoreThe brachytherapy team today treated a cervical cancer case using the Elekta Advanced Gynaecological Applicator (Venezia). This applicator gives greater control over needle placement to allow consistent treatment of a much wider gross treatment volume than the more traditional tandem and ovoid type applicators. A total of 17 separate treatment channels were used for this…
Read MoreYou can view a recent live broadcast which featured some of our very own Healthcare Scientists. This featured staff from the Royal Surreys Medical Physics department and continues to raise the profile of Healthcare science and the opportunities for careers in this area. The live broadcast is available to watch back here: https://learnliveuk.com/nhs-jobs-live-healthcare-science/ Martha, Sandra and…
Read MoreLiz Adams presented in the ‘Implementation/commissioning/QA of artificial intelligence techniques’ workstream of the 3rd ESTRO physics workshop. Her presentation gave some initial results from the work the group have been doing to evaluate auto-contouring software, demonstrating time savings in clinical practice. Further research is ongoing to determine the best way to make the most of…
Read MoreMark Long, deputy head of the brachytherapy physics division at the Royal Surrey was invited to speak at the national Elekta brachytherapy user group meeting. On the 10th October 2019 Mark presented a discussion on the progress which has been made in Guildford on in the implementation of the HDR technique used to treat prostate…
Read MoreMelanie Cunningham, Head of Brachytherapy Physics within the radiotherapy department at the Royal Surrey spoke is talking at the national induction day for the new intake of Medical Physics STP (Scientist Training Programme) trainees in Birmingham. This is run by the National School of Healthcare Science. Mel has been a designated training officer for a…
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