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Medical Dosimetrist Course:

Treatment Planning and Plan Evaluation

Course Overview
As complexity within radiation therapy continues to escalate, so do the added demands and pressures being placed on facilities for having adequate numbers of personnel that are highly skilled. There are increased demands being placed on Dosimetrists and Physicists on their ability to accurately define treatment volumes, avoidance of critical structures, selection of planning techniques, plan optimization and plan evaluation for effective delivery. Additionally, the time intensiveness of planning can constrain their ability to be present within the clinic despite the need for their advisement on technical issues. IMRT and IGRT have emphasized the need for all care-givers to have a keen understanding in the overall planning and delivery processes, as well as the potential ramifications for inconsistencies thereof, especially important when using smaller targets at escalated doses. This Compulsory course will focus on key issues as you evolve from 3DCRT to IMRT, heightening understanding and performance for either a novice or experienced Dosimetrists as well as Therapists. The didactic content, covering various sophisticated planning principles, is essential for heightening one’s performance in their day-to-day practice. Attendees and/or facilities seeking professional development opportunities and/or in preparation for the MDCB certification exam are encouraged to attend.
Educational Objectives
At the completion of this course,
participants will be able to:
  • Define appropriate volumes, with avoidance of critical structures, essential for 3DCRT and/or IMRT planning in CNS, thorax, abdomen and pelvis.
  • Formulate advanced computer generated plans, using multiple isocenters, complex factors, abutting fields,gaps, heterogeneity corrections, etc.
  • Summarize treatment planning concepts 2D, 3DCRT and/or IMRT and differentiate advantages of each.
  • Detect problems commonly encountered during 3DCRT/ IMRT planning and take appropriate corrective measures..
  • Apply knowledge of advanced practices into effective treatment regimes..
  • Demonstrate how utilizing Dose volume Histogram (DVH) data effectively evaluates treatment plans.
  • Describe IMRT QA practices.
  • Emphasis on electron beam physics and treatment planning.
Locations & Dates
Milwaukee, WI Nov 16-20, 10


Faculty
Wesley Culberson, PhD
Anand Krishnamurthy, MS
Nishele Lenards, MS, CMD, RT(R)(T)
Marisa Sheehan, CMD
Course Credit
This course provides 37 continuing medical education credits for Certified Medical Dosimetrists recognized by the MDCB and 37 hours of Category A credits for Radiation Therapists recognized by the ARRT. A certificate of attendance will be provided for each individual upon completion of the course. All attendees must attend the entire course to receive full credit.

Included Webinars
2009 was a trial year for MTMI in evaluating the success of teaching specific segments of this course curriculum in webinar format.
Based on the extremely favorable feedback derived from past course participants, we are proud to announce our decision to incorporate webinar education as an integral component of this course for 2010.
We are confident you will enjoy and benefit from your participation in live, interactive webinar sessions described below.
There will be one recommended webinar for this course -
Surface and Cross Sectional Anatomy.
If you are registered for the May course, you will attend on 3/29, 4/5 and 4/12 at 6pm (CST), 2 hours each session.
If you are registered for the November course, you will attend on 10/4, 10/11 and 10/18 at 6pm (CST), 2 hours each session.
To help ensure their effectiveness, formal overviews of the topics described will be provided during the live course.

Contact Claudette at MTMI to sign up for these webinars. (1-800-765-6864).
These webinars are included in the tuition for the course.
Recommended Reading
On the first day of the course you will be given a course syllabus containing all the course material.
In addition we recommend these books:
"Physics of Radiation Therapy", and
Acknowledgements
MTMI would like to thank the following vendors for support of this course:




Course Schedule
Day 1 - 7:30am - 5:00pm
(lunch on your own)
  • Introduction - Professional Relations and Responsibilities
  • Three Dimensional Imaging for RX Planning
    • - terminology
    - 3D gemetry definition
    - spatial coordinate system
  • Treatment Preparation Overview
    • - ICRU guidelines: target/critical structure
  • Treatment Preparation: Dose/Prescription
    • - units - NTCP
    - TD 5/5 - TCT
    - TC 50/5
  • Overview Surface and Cross Sectional Anatomy
    • - surface landmarks
    - extremities
    - Metastatic disease
  • Hands-on Lab: Computer Generated Contouring
    • - brain
    - thorax
    - adbomen/pelvis
  • Specialized Treatment: Craniospinal and Pediatrics
Day 2 - 8:00am - 5:00pm
(lunch on your own)
  • Correlation of Cross-Sectional Anatomy with MRI and PET for Treatment Planning
    • - CT, MRI, PET data sets: terms and definitions
    - file transfer protocols, limitation, pitfalls
    - treatment planning system orientation and fusion tools
    - anatomic points and volumes utilized for dataset fusion
    - CT and MRI contrast media issues
    - commonly experienced dataset handling challenges
  • Treatment Preparation
    • - IMRT computer planning
    - inverse/forward planning
  • Treatment Preparation/Beam Placements
  • - CT simulator dataset terms and definitions
    - goals and methods of isocenter placement
    - radiation beam model normalization and limitations
    - Portal Imaging and IGRT for ISO verifications
    - commonly experienced isocenter verification challenges
  • Plan Implementation
    • - charting and dosimetry instructions
    - plan verification
    - Port fim verification
  • Workshops: Plan Eval and Comparison
    • - DVH
    - 3DCRT versus IMRT
    - IMRT versus IMRT (re-optimization)
  • TPS Quality Assurance
    • - technical aspects
    - QA for TPS
    - accuracy and appropriateness for RX planning
  • Computers and Networking
Day 3 - 8:00am - 5:00pm
(lunch on your own)
  • Electron Beam Therapy
    • - history
    - interactions
    - energy specifications and measurement
  • Clinical Characteristics of Electron Beams
    • - depth dose curves
    - treatment planning
    - shaping of electron fields
  • Isodose: Electrons
    • - correction of exposure rates/dose rate
    - absorbed dose determination
    - matching adjacent photon and electron
  • Workshop: Treatment Computations
  • External Beam Calculations: Electrons
    • - electron block factors
  • Total Skin Electron
  • Electron Arcs
  • IMRT Quality Assurance
Day 4 - 8:00am - 5:00pm
(lunch on your own)
  • Workshop: Applied Mathematics Review
  • Photon Isodose Overview
    • - isodose distributions
    - other beams
  • Copmplex Factors
    • - dynamic wedge
    - CT artifact corrections
    - heterogeneity corrections
    - common computer discrepencies
    - hand versus computer corrections
  • Dose Determination - External Beam
    • - instrumentation
  • Course Exam and Review
  • Workshop: Treatment Planning Clinical Cases
    • - IMRT esophagus
    - abdomen
    - re-treatment (near cord or kidney)
Day 5 - 8:00am - 5:00pm
(lunch on your own)
  • Treatment Planning Labs
Schedule is subject to change.
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Hotel Information
Milwaukee, WI - 2010
Accommodations:
Milwaukee Marriott West
W231 N1600 Corporate Court
Waukesha, WI 53186
877-651-7666 for reservations
http://www.marriott.com/mkemw
Room Rate:  Single $98/Double $121
Reservations can be made two weeks prior to course
To assure availability, make reservations early
For telephone reservations call:  877-651-7666
Includes airport shuttle to/from Milwaukee Marriott West
hotel or MTMI, daily shuttle to/from MTMI, breakfast
buffet, high speed internet access, and reception
on first night of course
Airport shuttle is FREE - make reservations prior to arrival.  Please contact "Go Airport Connection"
at 800-236-5450  and identify yourself as an MTMI attendee or make online reservations at http://goairportconnection.hudsonltd.net/res Login code "mtmimw"
Please note:  Only those attendees that book sleeping
rooms through Marriott hotel under MTMI room block will
receive free airport transportation and free breakfast.
Program held at:
MTMI Education Center
20900 Swenson Drive, Suite 650
Waukesha, WI  53186
262-717-9797
Hotel information for other dates may not yet be available.
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