New to Align RT
Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2024 2:28 pm
by jennifer_puglia
Our facility should be installing align RT by next year and there varying amounts of knowledge of team members. Do align RT patients need to be simmed using align RT software at the time of the sim to use it on the treatment machine? Or do only gating, DIBH cases need to be simmed in this manner.
Re: New to Align RT
Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2024 3:44 pm
by Steven de Boer
Hi Jennifer, Patients do not need to be simmed with alignRT software. The surface used for patient alignment and monitoring on the machine comes from the body contour delineated on the CT images from the treatment planning system. The isocenter is also sent from the planning system.
This hold true for DIBH cases as I believe most sites do not have alignRT camera installed in sim.