Improving patient safety in radiation therapy with the Watchdog real-time treatment delivery verification system

利用 Watchdog 实时治疗实施验证系统提高放射治疗中的患者安全

• 批准号: nhmrc : GNT1130469
• 负责人: A/Pr Andrew Kneebone
• 金额: $ 59.37万
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Project Grants
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://researchdata.edu.au/improving-patient-safety-delivery-verification/1347813
• 关键词: Improving; patient; safety; radiation; therapy

Radiation therapy is a highly effective cancer treatment with extremely high doses delivered using very complex treatment machines. Unfortunately errors have occurred resulting in cases of patient death and mistreatment. We have developed a novel method to assess the treatment delivery in real-time to prevent errors. The method uses imaging devices that are already present on the treatment machine meaning that this method could have a major impact on patient safety in modern radiation therapy.

放射治疗是一种非常有效的癌症治疗方法，使用非常复杂的治疗机器进行极高剂量的放射治疗。不幸的是，发生了一些错误，导致病人死亡和虐待。我们已经开发了一种新的方法来实时评估治疗交付，以防止错误。该方法使用的成像设备已经存在于治疗机中，这意味着该方法可能对现代放射治疗中的患者安全产生重大影响。