Electronic Log for James Golbourn
To Do:
- Email Alison for details of Hakan Nystrom.
- Get in contact with Laurent contact at Med Austrom about QA procedures.
- Plan literature research essay.
- Prepare practice presentation for project (8/2/19)
- Write up report on meeting with UCLH.
- Look at what functioning centres are using as QA.
- Look at advantages and disadvantages of QA systems.
- Write research essay.
- Update presentation with corrections made.
Tasks Completed:
- Presentation to PBT group.
- Project progress report.
- Project outline.
Key Dates:
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Deadline
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| Project Outline
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03/12/2018
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| Project Progress Report
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31/01/2019
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| Short Presentation
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08/02/2019
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| Research Essay
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31/03/2019
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| Thesis Deadline
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22/08/2019
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| Final Presentation
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02/09/2019
Progress Report Outline:
- Introduction to Proton beam therapy.
- What is Quality Assurance?
- Important beam characteristics.
- Commercially available devices such as the Matrixx, Lynx and Sun Nuclear QA3.
- Other methods for measuring beam properties.
- Understand what range modulators do.
- Look into whether Zebra was initially designed for X-Rays.
- Zebra not often used for daily QA due to the very long initial set up time.
- Investigate film dosimetry e.g Gafchromic film.
- Research Lynx scintillator.
- Range calorimeter - need a moving absorber, e.g water tank, to measure energy and range.
- Know difference between scintillator screens and fibres - fibres use fibre optics and are not used due to needing something to read output from each fibre which is expensive.
- UCLH will have 4 treatment rooms.
- Put slide number on presentation.
- Expand on each daily QA:
- Table of devices
- Tolerances
- How long it takes
- Collect standards and tolerances on energy, spot size and output.
Useful Links for Research Essay:
- Sun Nuclear QA 3 Device:
- A novel daily QA system for proton therapy
- Daily QA in proton therapy using a single commercially available detector
- Sun Nuclear QA 3 Fact Sheet
- Technical Note: An efficient daily QA procedure for proton pencil beam scanning
- IBA Zebra:
- Quality assurance of proton beams using a multilayer ionization chamber system
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