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A survey on the current clinical application and practice of helical tomotherapy in mainland China
- Source :
- Journal of Radiotherapy in Practice. 18:375-382
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2019.
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Abstract
- Aim:To assess helical tomotherapy (TOMO) current clinical application and practice in mainland China.Materials and methods:Data were collected for all TOMO units clinically operational in mainland China by 30 April 2016, including (a) the distribution of installation and staffing levels; (b) types of cancers treated; (c) utilisation efficiency; (d) quality assurance; (e) maintenance; (f) optional features; and (g) satisfaction levels. The data were collected as a census and analysed qualitatively and quantitatively.Results:As of 30 April 2016, 23 TOMO units were used clinically by 22 hospitals in mainland China. In the same period, 22,558 cancer patients were treated. For TOMO units with more than a year of clinical utilisation, a median of 378 cases were treated annually per machine. The median daily operation was 10·5 hours, and treatment headcount was 38·3 patients. The median service outage rate was 2·6%, and the most common cause was malfunction of the multi-leaf collimator. In terms of overall satisfaction levels, 3 hospitals were very satisfied, 16 were satisfied and 3 considered their satisfaction level as average.Findings:The overall operation of TOMO is good, but there are some problems due to running at full capacity, lack of clinical efficacy research and insufficient quality assurance regulations.
- Subjects :
- Mainland China
medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
medicine.medical_treatment
Staffing
Tomotherapy
030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Oncology
Daily operation
Satisfaction level
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Emergency medicine
medicine
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Clinical efficacy
business
Quality assurance
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14671131 and 14603969
- Volume :
- 18
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Radiotherapy in Practice
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........a32a0a50c2f21eaa8c78a102908f4e05