Commissioning and Clinical Implementation of Elements Spine SRS

Event: ISRS 2019: Novalis Circle Symposium
Topics: Spine Metastasis, Spine Primary Tumors
Year: 2019

Niko Papanikolaou, PhD, from UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson Cancer Center shares his institution’s experiences with commissioning and clinical implementation of Brainlab Elements Spine SRS software. He begins by giving an overview of the software itself, including spinal curvature correction, spine contouring, VMAT optimization, user defined protocol based planning and Monte Carlo based dose calculation. He then shares a treatment planning study to evaluate the clinical benefit of Spine SRS compared to Pinnacle and Monaco treatment planning systems. Finally, Dr. Papanikolaou discusses commissioning including the phantoms used.

About the speaker

Niko Papanikolaou, PhD

Niko Papanikolaou, PhD
UT Health San Antonio, MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA

Professor of Radiation Oncology and Radiology at University of Texas Health Sciences Center San Antonio.

He also serves as the chief of the division of medical physics and the director of the doctorate program in medical physics at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. Dr. Papanikolaou has contributed to over 600 peer reviewed research papers that have been published either as journal manuscripts or conference proceedings.

His clinical and research interests are in the areas of:

Dose calculation and optimization
Image guided radiotherapy
Stereotactic and adaptive radiotherapy
Radiobiological modeling of radiation treatments

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Video Transcript

Good afternoon. Thank you to Brainlab for sending invitation for me to come and share some of our experiences with the group at ISRS. The biggest challenge so far I've seen from presenters is how to use the control over here. So hopefully we'll figure it out. Yeah. Okay. All right. So before, what is this one? Right? There you go. Okay. So this is the disclosures to share it with you. And if we look at the ACR data from 2018, we recognize that 1 person in 100,000, or about 10,000 people a year in the U.S. will develop...

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