RADON 204 - Treatment Planning III

5 CR

Presents additional special treatment techniques used in radiation therapy. Topics include moving beam, electron beam, orthovoltage therapy, matching fields, weighted fields, irregular fields, and three-dimensional treatment planning.

Prerequisite(s): Acceptance into program.

Course Outcomes

Evaluate the appropriate clinical situations for using electron beam or orthovoltage beam therapy
Identify the physical limitations for electron beam therapy
Compare moving beam dose distributions to stationary beam dose distributions
Calculate point doses for weighted treatment fields
Design models for tabulation of weighted field doses
Identify clinical situations involving adjacent fields
Examine the issues of adjacent field treatments
Analyze scatter distribution for shaped fields
Apply specific models for determining the scatter component for high energy photon beams
Evaluate the differences between 2D and 3D calculation computations and dose distributions
Examine the use of new technologies such as IMRT and Stereotactic radiation therapy

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