A decision tool for radiographer-led abdominal image-guided stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy - Experience from a single institution

Mairead Daly; Syed A Moinuddin; Shabnam Petkar; Zankhana Jani; Kathryn McGeady; Maria Hawkins

doi:10.1016/j.tipsro.2021.07.004

A decision tool for radiographer-led abdominal image-guided stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy - Experience from a single institution

Tech Innov Patient Support Radiat Oncol. 2021 Aug 2:19:33-36. doi: 10.1016/j.tipsro.2021.07.004. eCollection 2021 Sep.

Authors

Mairead Daly¹, Syed A Moinuddin¹, Shabnam Petkar¹, Zankhana Jani¹, Kathryn McGeady¹, Maria Hawkins^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ University College London Hospitals NHS Trust, United Kingdom.
² University College London, United Kingdom.

Abstract

A decision tool for radiographer-led image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) using cone-beam CT (CBCT) for abdominal stereotactic radiotherapy was developed and successfully implemented in a single department. The confidence of 7 therapeutic radiographers when undertaking online CBCT review increased, and the pooled median online match time was reduced by 1 m 8 s. While this may be advantageous for abdominal SABR, further evaluation of this work in a larger cohort is required to validate these results.

Keywords: Liver cancer; Oligometastases; Pancreatic cancer; SABR; Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy.