Competency information

Details

Treatment planning for a variety of treatments sites using standard template methods and image- guided methodologies

Considerations

  • Brachytherapy treatment planning, including treatment effectiveness
  • Understand the size and clinical relevance of uncertainties
  • Standard system rules
  • Image-guided techniques in brachytherapy planning
  • Benefits of using other algorithms (cf TG43)
  • Planning algorithms

Relevant learning outcomes

# Outcome
# 2 Outcome Perform routine quality assurance and safety tests on brachytherapy afterloading devices.