Credentialing Requirements for ATC-Supported Protocols
3DCRT Protocols
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A Facility Questionnaire describing institutional
personnel, equipment, and treatment techniques must be
submitted by institutions seeking credentialing to participate
in protocols that involve data submission to the
Image Guided Therapy QA Center (ITC).
The current version of the Facility Questionnaire consists of
three parts.
Part I provides general information for 3DCRT and IMRT.
Please consult the protocol page on the ATC website to see which
parts are required for a particular protocol.
Instructions for obtain and submitting forms are available
here.
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Dry Run (Benchmark) Test:
The Dry Run test is simply a test of digital data submission capabilities.
The treatment planning system to be used to plan patients on the study should be
used for this digital data submission test. The test may use data for
a patient or phantom that has received the same modality (3DCRT)
for which you are attempting to become credentialed.
Please contact the ITC (itc@wustl.edu) to request an SFTP account for digital data
submission, if you do not have one already. For further information, see Dry Run Guidelines
per protocol at http://atc.wustl.edu/protocols/.
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IMRT Protocols
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A Facility Questionnaire describing institutional
personnel, equipment, and treatment techniques must be
submitted by institutions seeking credentialing to participate
in protocols that involve data submission to the
Image Guided Therapy QA Center (ITC).
The current version of the Facility Questionnaire consists of
three parts.
Part I provides general information for 3DCRT and IMRT.
Please consult the protocol page on the ATC website to see which
parts are required for a particular protocol.
Instructions for obtain and submitting forms are available
here.
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Dry Run (Benchmark) Test: The Dry Run test for IMRT protocols is simply a test of digital data submission capabilities.
The treatment planning system to be used to plan patients on the study should be used for this digital data submission test.
The test may use data for a patient or phantom that has received the same modality (IMRT) for which you are attempting to become credentialed.
If you have performed a phantom experiment, the submission of the phantom treatment planning data to the ITC may suffice as your dry run test. Please contact Bill Straube at the ITC to determine if your phantom submission is sufficient for a test of digital data submission.
The first protocol case you submit will be reviewed by the study chair(s) in a timely fashion and feedback concerning the review will be communicated to your institution. (Study chair approval may be requresd prior to treatment, see protocol.) We ask that no subsequent patients be registered on the study by your institution until you have received this feedback. If there are major problems with the first case, the second case may be subject to a timely review as well.
Please contact the ITC (itc@wustl.edu) to request an SFTP account for digital data
submission, if you do not have one already. For further information, see Dry Run Guidelines
per protocol at http://atc.wustl.edu/protocols/.
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Phantom Dosimetry Test: A TLD/Film dosimetry - treatment
plan verification phantom experiment must be conducted. Contact
the Radiological Physics Center (http://rpc.mdanderson.org/rpc/)
to arrange to receive a phantom. The phantom is to be scanned and
treated according to RPC instructions. Phantoms (including TLDs
and films) are to be returned to the RPC. The corresponding treatment
planning data set is to be submitted to the ITC. |
Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy Protocols (SBRT)
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A Facility Questionnaire describing institutional
personnel, equipment, and treatment techniques must be
submitted by institutions seeking credentialing to participate
in protocols that involve data submission to the
Image Guided Therapy QA Center (ITC).
The current version of the Facility Questionnaire consists of
three parts.
Please consult the protocol page on the ATC website to see which
parts are required for a particular protocol.
Instructions for obtain and submitting forms are available
here.
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Dry Run (Benchmark) Test: Contact the ITC (itc@wustl.edu)
and request an SFTP account for digital data submission. A complete
patient data set as specified by the treatment protocol must be
submitted to the ITC to demonstrate compliance with 3D technical
requirements (see Dry Run Guidelines at http://atc.wustl.edu/protocols/).
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Immobilization/Localization and Respiration
Control Systems Test: A patient imaging study must be
carried out to document the setup reproducibility for
their choice of immobilization and/or localization equipment.
Respiration control is another important part of this study,
and all measurements carried out for this portion of the
credentialing process must be gathered in such a way that the
institution's method of respiration control is evaluated at the
same time. That is, the images used for determining setup
reproducibility must be obtained under the conditions that will
be used for actual patient treatment for this protocol.
(See procedure for this test at
http://atc.wustl.edu/protocols/ .)
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Phantom Dosimetry Test: A TLD/Film dosimetry - treatment
plan verification phantom experiment must be conducted. Contact
the Radiological Physics Center (http://rpc.mdanderson.org/rpc/)
to arrange to receive a phantom. The phantom is to be scanned and
treated according to RPC instructions. Phantoms (including TLDs
and films) are to be returned to the RPC. The corresponding treatment
planning data set is to be submitted to the ITC. |
Brachytherapy Protocols
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Credentialing for brachytherapy protocols is through the RPC.
Facility questionnaires and knowledge assessment forms
as well as other credentialing instructions can be found on the RPC
website (http://rpc.mdanderson.org/rpc/).
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Dry Run (Benchmark) Test: Contact the
Image-guided Therapy QA Center
(itc@wustl.edu)
to request an SFTP account for digital data submission.
A complete patient data set as specified by the treatment protocol
must be submitted to the ITC to demonstrate compliance with
3D technical requirements. This dry run will be reviewed by the
RPC.
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