Improving patient safety in radiation therapy with the Watchdog real-time treatment delivery verification system

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1130469

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Radiation therapy is a highly effective cancer treatment with extremely high doses delivered using very complex treatment machines. Unfortunately errors have occurred resulting in cases of patient death and mistreatment. We have developed a novel method to assess the treatment delivery in real-time to prevent errors. The method uses imaging devices that are already present on the treatment machine meaning that this method could have a major impact on patient safety in modern radiation therapy.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2017

End Date: 01-01-2020

Funding Scheme: Project Grants

Funding Amount: $593,742.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Medical Physics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

computer simulation | image processing | imaging | medical physics | radiotherapy

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