Category: Planning Tutorials

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Thank you to everyone for the continued support for DOSEPEDIA. This post also contains three-2 Minute Tutorial Videos…

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5 Minute Tutorials: Breast V105% Field-in-Field Planning

This method focuses on reducing the V105% and V108% while simultaneously reducing max point dose…

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5 Minute Tutorials: Breast Electronic (Irregular Surface) Compensator Planning

The penetration depth may be arbitrarily set at 50% as manual fluence editing is required…

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2 Minute Tutorials: VMAT Breast/CW with Flash with BOLUS Planning

An expansion of 1.5 CM + ‘bolus thickness’ anteriorly and laterally is used here for the chest…

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5 Minute Tutorials: VMAT Breast/CW with Flash Planning

In External Beam Planning, right click on the CT to “copy & paste” the initial scan, and name…

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5 Minute Tutorials: Hippocampal Sparing Planning

Collimator angles of 85° and 95° are used as opposed to say 5° and 355° because the MLC leaves…

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2 Minute Tutorials: Wedge Pair Technique Planning

The wedge technique is most commonly utilized to alter the dose distribution to compensate for…

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5 Minute Tutorials: 3D Breast Field-in-Field Planning

The field-in-field technique is a method improving dose homogeneity by decreasing regions of high…

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2 Minute Tutorials: 3-Field Wedge Technique Planning

The wedge technique is most commonly utilized to alter the dose distribution to compensate for…

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2 Minute Tutorials: Dose Painting/SIB Planning Part 2

Dose Painting/SIB Planning Part 2…

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5 Minute Tutorials: Head and Neck Planning

The therapists will align the patient and place a plastic headrest underneath the head/neck for…

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2 Minute Tutorials: Dose Painting/SIB Planning Part 1

Dose Painting/SIB Planning Part 1…