Surface brachytherapy: Joint report of the AAPM and the GEC-ESTRO Task Group No. 253

Regina K Fulkerson; Jose Perez-Calatayud; Facundo Ballester; Ivan Buzurovic; Yongbok Kim; Yury Niatsetski; Zoubir Ouhib; Sujatha Pai; Mark J Rivard; Yi Rong; Frank-André Siebert; Bruce R Thomadsen; Frank Weigand

doi:10.1002/mp.14436

Surface brachytherapy: Joint report of the AAPM and the GEC-ESTRO Task Group No. 253

Med Phys. 2020 Oct;47(10):e951-e987. doi: 10.1002/mp.14436. Epub 2020 Aug 29.

Authors

Regina K Fulkerson¹, Jose Perez-Calatayud^{2

3}, Facundo Ballester⁴, Ivan Buzurovic⁵, Yongbok Kim⁶, Yury Niatsetski⁷, Zoubir Ouhib⁸, Sujatha Pai⁹, Mark J Rivard¹⁰, Yi Rong¹¹, Frank-André Siebert¹², Bruce R Thomadsen¹, Frank Weigand¹³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 53705, USA.
² Radiotherapy Department, La Fe Hospital, Valencia, 46026, Spain.
³ Radiotherapy Department, Clinica Benidorm, Alicante, 03501, Spain.
⁴ Department of Atomic, Molecular and Nuclear Physics, University of Valencia, Burjassot, 46100, Spain.
⁵ Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
⁶ Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85724, USA.
⁷ R&D Elekta Brachytherapy, Waardgelder 1, Veenendaal, 3903 DD, Netherlands.
⁸ Radiation Oncology Department, Lynn Regional Cancer Center, Boca Raton Community Hospital, Boca Raton, FL, 33486, USA.
⁹ Radion Inc., 20380 Town Center Lane, Suite 135, Cupertino, CA, 95014, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Radiation Oncology, Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02903, USA.
¹¹ Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, Sacramento, CA, 95817, USA.
¹² UK S-H, Campus Kiel, Klinik fur Strahlentherapie (Radioonkologie), Arnold-Heller-Str. 3, Haus 50, Kiel, D-24105, Germany.
¹³ Carl Zeiss Meditec AG, Rudolf-Eber-Straße 11, Oberkochen, 73447, Germany.

PMID: 32862452
DOI: 10.1002/mp.14436

Abstract

The surface brachytherapy Task Group report number 253 discusses the common treatment modalities and applicators typically used to treat lesions on the body surface. Details of commissioning and calibration of the applicators and systems are discussed and examples are given for a risk-based analysis approach to the quality assurance measures that are necessary to consider when establishing a surface brachytherapy program.

Keywords: skin brachytherapy; surface applicator QA; surface brachytherapy.

MeSH terms

Brachytherapy*
Calibration
Radiotherapy Dosage
Research Report