The radiotherapy physics department was represented at the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO) annual congresses held in Vienna in May 2023 by Gail Anastasi Distefano and Rachel Hollingdale. Gail showed a poster titled, ‘Investigating the use of Microsoft KinectV2 to monitor a patient’s breathing during Lung SBRT’ and Rachel gave a short oral…
Read MoreThe radiotherapy department at St Luke’s Cancer Centre, Guildford has reached a significant milestone for delivering cutting-edge treatments. The team have just delivered the 1000th fraction of online adaptive radiotherapy using the Varian Ethos machine. The state-of-the-art linac uses AI to generate patient contours and streamlines the workflow to allow a new plan to be…
Read MoreYou can now read the recently published work completed in the radiotherapy department on how they have implemented online adaptive radiotherapy for cervical cancer patients using the Varian Ethos system. A truly MDT approach was needed, and the entire team worked tirelessly to ensure a safe initial implementation and this service is now routinely offered…
Read MoreA new 3D printer has been installed in the radiotherapy department. Mark Long and Matt Bolt are leading the introduction of the new technology to help in treating disease close to the skin with radiotherapy. This innovative technology will help increase the accuracy and effectiveness of the radiotherapy treatments received by the patients. The department…
Read MoreThe December 2022 issue of radmagazine features a discussion centred around the Royal Surrey’s experience with the Varian Ethos system to delivery daily online adaptive radiotherapy. Authored by Rachel Hollingdale, Matthew Bolt and Charlotte Shelley, the full article is available here: https://www.radmagazine.com/scientific-article/online-cbct-based-adaptive-planning-and-treatment/
Read MoreWe have three Clinical Scientist vacancies, working within the Radiotherapy team at St Luke’s Cancer Centre in Guildford, Surrey: Band 7 Registered Clinical Scientist x 2: NHS jobs ref C9384-AGB-EMF12472 Band 8A Senior Clinical Scientist: NHS jobs ref C9384-AGB-EMF12474 The successful candidates will provide scientific support across external beam treatment planning, dosimetry/QA, and brachytherapy, with…
Read MoreThis year was the first time the radiotherapy department had hosted a summer placement student organised through the South East Physics network (SEPNet). More information can be found about the placements here: https://www.sepnet.ac.uk/for-students/sepnet-summer-placement-scheme-information-students/ The placement was for 8 weeks and undertaken by Katie Ryan who had recently graduated from Southampton University with a BSc in Physics…
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 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…
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