Advanced Physics for Brachytherapy 2018

Commissioning: General

• Medical Event notification plan and action levels

• Patient/personnel radiation safety plan

• Patient positioning standards and contingencies

• Use of dummy markers, contrast agents, and imaging system settings to visualize disease/applicator/markers

• Form creation

– WD (disease-site specific) – daily QA (performed by therapist under physicist supervision) – Tx runsheet QC – new source QA (TPS backup, TCS backup) – annual QA, rigorously check applicators and TPS data