Purpose: AOPSS survey conducted in the Cedar’s Cancer Centre (CCC) waiting room showed that 63 % of patients wait longer than expected for their radiation intra-treatment visits. The purpose of this study is to objectify wait times at the CCC and …
Purpose: The Canadian Partnership for Quality Radiotherapy (CPQR) supports the use of patient reported outcomes (PRO) as an essential component of quality patient care and is committed to developing processes that promote the use of PRO. The overall …
Purpose: To develop an online educational module for patients undergoing breast radiotherapy treatments using the Deep Inspiration Breath-Hold (DIBH) technique. The goal was to assist the patient with breathing control by developing new pedagogical …
We describe DepDocs, a web-based platform that we have developed to manage the committee meetings, policies, procedures and other documents within our otherwise paperless radiotherapy clinic. DepDocs is essentially a document management system based …
**Innovation/Impact**: We describe the web-based QA infrastructure under development and in use within our paperless radiation oncology clinic. Our framework comprises a centralized web-server that facilitates simultaneous and seamless access to …
Photoneutrons are a major component of the equivalent dose in the maze and near the door of linac bunkers. Physical measurements and Monte Carlo (MC) calculations of neutron dose are key for validating bunker design with respect to health …
We describe a framework for comprehensive electronic QA currently under development in the department of Radiation Oncology at the Montreal General Hospital. When complete, the system will incorporate all data generated within the department. It …
During the 2007/2008 observing season a low‐energy trigger configuration was developed and tested for VERITAS. The configuration makes uses of the small (∼35 m) baseline between two of the VERITAS telescopes and employs a much lower discriminator …
We report on intensive multiwavelength observations of the blazar Mrk 421 with the Whipple 10m telescope and supporting observations across the electromagnetic spectrum. The observations resulted in a data set with excellent temporal and spectral …