Radiation Therapy

  Register Now!

Workshops

Ultrasound QA

Registration Fee: TBA
Workshop Track: Medical Physics/Radiation Therapy Technologists
Date & Time/Duration: Wednesday Afternoon; Feburuary 12, 2020
Venue: KACOLD/B1/ CT-sim 1
Maximum Capacity:
Coordinator: Ms. Mona Alturaiki
Instructor: Dr. Adel Mustafa
Target Audience:
Prerequisites (if applicable): NA
Workshop Description:
Learning Objectives:

Image Guided Radiotherapy in Clinical Practice Workshop

Date & Time: Thursday Morning, 13 February 2020 from 8:30am-12pm
Venue: CT-Sim Room, KACOLD-B1
Maximum Capacity:30
Coordinator: May Sandra Mac
Instructors: Tracy Hoan, Sean Downey, Maryan Mahamud, Roxxan Medina
Target Audience: Radiation Therapists.

Workshop Description:
This show and tell workshop is targeting radiographers in the practice of Radiation Therapy Pre-treatment and treatment process for different sites including image guided radiotherapy for CT, Ultrasound, MRI to treatment setup verification.

Learning Objectives: To cover many practical aspects of:

  • Pre-planning techniques such as Immobilization and patient set up.
  • Usage of image guidance such as CT, Ultrasound, and MRI for outlining,
  • Treatment image verification protocols.
  • “Paradigm shift with Surface Guided Radiation Therapy (SGRT)” (application specialist form VISION RT).

Program

Monday, 10 February 2020
Time
Title
Speakers
CEC
8:00-8:20 Management of Radiotherapy Patients with Implanted Cardiac Pacemakers and Defibrillators: A Report of the AAPM TG-203 Dr. Siyong Kim
8:20-8:40 Use of Ultrasound for bladder preparation RT patients: (Performance Improvement project) Alaa Batouk/Ellie Tully
8:40-9:00 Management of Radiotherapy Pregnant Patients Dr. Siyong Kim
9:00-9:30 Quality assurance for nonradiographic radiotherapy localization and positioning systems: Report of Task Group 147
RT vision example		 Dr. Siyong Kim
9:30-10:00
Coffee Break
12:00-13:30
Prayer Time & Lunch Break
Scientific Session
13:30-14:00 Implementation of MRI Safety in Radiation Therapy Department. Wafaa Al Onaizi
14:00-14:30 Scanning & Treatment Guidelines for DIBH: (King Faisal Experience) Saud Al Khammash/Saeed Al Bakrah
14:30-15:00 Patient Set up & Immobilization in MRI Simulation:(King Faisal Experience) Ahmad Kattan
15:00-15:30 IORT (King Faisal Experience) Julie Pickford
15:30-16:00
Coffee Break
16:00-16:20 Patient Education Material Haifa Asfor
16:20-16:40 Oncology Nursing Care Mangayarkarasi Arumugam
16:40-17:00 Stress Management in Radiation Therapy field Melody Schaefer

Scientific Tracks