Commissioning and Clinical Implementation of Elements Spine SRS
- Event: ISRS 2019: Novalis Circle Symposium
- Topics: Spine Metastasis, Spine 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
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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