Award Date
May 2024
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Medical Physics (DMP)
Department
Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences
First Committee Member
Steen Madsen
Second Committee Member
Yu Kuang
Third Committee Member
Cephas Mubata
Fourth Committee Member
David Zhang
Fifth Committee Member
Ryan Hecox
Sixth Committee Member
James Navalta
Number of Pages
64
Abstract
Spatially Fractionated Radiation Therapy (SFRT) is a treatment method that distributes a non-uniform dose with alternating peaks and valleys within a tumor. It is an effective technique to treat large and bulky tumors with limited toxicity to surrounding Organs At Risk (OAR), which is normally hard to treat using traditional radiation therapy methods. It can either be delivered by using a three-dimensional conformal planning technique (either physical block or virtually using Multi Leaf Collimators (MLC)), or by Lattice Radiation Therapy (LRT) using Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT) technique. The scope of this work is to compare and implement SFRT treatment techniques at Intermountain Cancer Center (ICC). This requires the investigation of physical and dosimetric characteristics of the grid, describing its clinical implementation and verification, creating treatment plans on test patients using different methods of SFRT, assessment of the parameters that decides the acceptability of the plan, establishing Quality Assurance (QA) methods, and making recommendations about treatment planning and dose reporting. All the measurement results for SFRT commissioning were found to be within clinically acceptable agreement for implementation at ICC.
Keywords
Grid; Intermountain cancer center; Lattice radiation therapy; SFRT; Spatially fractionated
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
Degree Grantor
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Language
English
Repository Citation
Kaur, Anupreet, "Spatially Fractionated Radiation Therapy Implementation At Intermountain Cancer Center" (2024). UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones. 5019.
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/thesesdissertations/5019
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