- International Fees
International fees are typically 3.25 times the domestic tuition. Exact cost will be calculated upon completion of registration.
Course Overview
This course provides the student with lab experiences to develop competency in clinical treatment planning. Students will gain an understanding of how manual methods are used to produce composite isodose distributions and examine the management of digital information that has evolved as a result of increased computerization in clinical practice. Using a variety of patient images, students will employ 3-D software to outline critical structures, assess planning target volumes and design optimal treatment plans.
Prerequisite(s)
Credits
6.0
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Discuss manual methods to produce composite isodose distributions.
- Discuss manual methods to produce composite isodose distributions requiring wedges.
- Discuss the management of digital information in the radiation therapy department.
- Assess the advantages and disadvantages of digital information used in the radiation therapy department.
- Develop dose distributions which are achievable on the treatment unit, optimize target dose and limit dose to critical organs to within tolerance parameters for photon beams.
- Recognize and delineate critical structures on a variety of axial views for different tumour sites.
- Compute isodose distributions to demonstrate the total composite of multi-phased treatments.
- Assess the advantages and disadvantages of multi-field techniques for different sites.
- Compare and evaluate a variety of techniques and their isodose distributions for different tumour sites.
- Apply the principles of inverse treatment planning to produce distributions.
- Produce treatment plans that consider the physical and mechanical limitations of specific treatment units.
- Provide rationale for technique selection specific to tumour site and patient positioning limitations.
- Complete documentation to enable plan to be accurately applied to patient.
- Determine appropriate action to modify or correct calculations based on the clinical situation.
- Understand the principles and rationale for multi-modality image registration.
- Understand quality assurance practices for clinical radiation therapy treatment planning procedures.
- Understand clinical use for electron beams and recognize the benefits and limitations.
Effective as of Fall 2015
Related Programs
Treatment Planning 4 (RADT 8105) is offered as a part of the following programs:
School of Health Sciences
- Radiation Therapy
Bachelor of Science Full-time
Programs and courses are subject to change without notice.