MLC Leakage Analysis for Quality Assurance

Event: 8th International Conference of the Novalis Circle 2018
Topic: Medical Physics
Year: 2018

Charles Geraghty, Clinical Medical Physicist at the Anne Arundel Medical Center in Maryland, US, discusses multileaf collimator (MLC) leakage analysis for quality assurance. He begins by giving an overview of his hospital and the community hospital experience in general. He then discusses the emergence of techniques for treating multiple metastases as well as commissioning measurements. He delves into a study on target separation and the dosimetric effect of rotation and translational errors as well as the importance of MLC leakage in single isocenter multiple metastases treatments. He then discusses MLC leakage modeling with Brainlab Elements Multiple Brain Mets SRS planning software.

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Charles Geraghty, MS

Charles Geraghty, MS
Anne Arundel Medical Center, Annapolis, USA

Video Transcript

Thank you, Dr. [inaudible 00:00:03.500], and thank you Brainlab for inviting me out to Germany for this talk. This is very exciting. I think it's great to have so many people from different countries in one meeting. It's just fascinating. So I'm gonna talk about MLC Leakage Analysis for Quality Assurance. Again, my name is Charles Geraghty. I work at Anne Arundel Medical Center which is in Annapolis, Maryland. And here's my disclosure. Just to tell you a little bit about my center, it is a large community hospital, was founded in 1902. We have 400 beds in the main...

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