Why patient QA?

Safety is a priority in radiation therapy. Protecting patients against ionizing radiation to healthy tissue is essential. Every measurement must be as accurate as possible. Various QA processes can produce different results; therefore, it is imperative to independently verify calculations a second time. This is exactly what RadCalc does: independently verifies dosimetric calculations in an easy-to-use software platform.

How do you check calculations of the treatment planning system?

Fast and fully automated patient plan QA is a big step towards a QA process conforming to global standards. RadCalc QA software checks patient plans fast and easy, which allows for more time for your patients.

Simply import the patient plans from your planning system. RadCalc automatically calculates in the background with independent algorithms whether irregularities or deviations are present. As a result, you receive an analysis report. This saves you valuable time and provides you a second check on the calculation of the therapy planning system – fully automated. Enhance safety with an independent secondary check which perfectly suits your existing QA process.

„Nearly 60 % of the reported errors involved a lack of an appropriate independent secondary check of the treatment plan or dose calculation.“

According to IAEA Technical Report 430

Safety

For your patients

In the medical field it is common to get a second opinion. Patients do not have the chance to check their own treatment planning calculation. To know that comprehensive QA has been performed, gives trust and confidence which in turn has a positive effect on the treatment.

For you

For the medical physicist, time is a limited resource. However, time savings cannot be achieved by fewer tests, but by efficient tools. Due to patient QA with secondary check software, more time is created for machine QA, which results in additional risk reduction.

Portrait of Jens Gauthier, CEO and Head of Business Unit Healthcare at LAP

"With our future-oriented QA products we improve the everyday life of our customers in radiation therapy."

Jens Gauthier, Managing Director at LAP

How can RadCalc support my QA tasks?

Workflow

RadCalc can seamlessly be integrated into the clinical workflow.

Dose analysis

RadCalc provides vendor independent calculations for unbiased quality assurance in an easy-to-use software platform.

Calculation algorithms

Treatments have become more complex with higher dose per fraction. Monte Carlo is known as the most accurate calculation algorithm for radiotherapy dose calculation.