Quality assurance guidelines for superficial hyperthermia clinical trials: I. Clinical requirements
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2017
Quality assurance guidelines are essential to provide uniform execution of clinical trials and treatment in the application of hyperthermia. This document provides definitions for a good hyperthermia treatment and identifies the clinical conditions where a certain hyperthermia system can or cannot adequately heat the tumour volume. It also provides brief description of the characteristics and performance of the current electromagnetic (radiative and capacitive), ultrasound and infra-red heating techniques. This information helps to select the appropriate heating technique for the specific tumour location and size, and appropriate settings of the water bolus and thermometry. Finally, requirements of staff training and documentation are provided. The guidelines in this document focus on the clinical application and are complemented with a second, more technical quality assurance document providing instructions and procedure to determine essential parameters that describe heating properties of the applicator for superficial hyperthermia. Both sets of guidelines were developed by the ESHO Technical Committee with participation of senior STM members and members of the Atzelsberg Circle.
hyperthermia
superficial
Quality assurance
clinical
Författare
Hana Dobsicek Trefna
Chalmers, Signaler och system, Signalbehandling och medicinsk teknik
Hans Crezee
Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam
M. Schmidt
Universitatsklinik Erlangen und Medizinische Fakultat
D. Marder
Kantonsspital Aarau
U. Lamprecht
Universitatsklinikum Tubingen Medizinische Fakultat
M. Ehmann
Universitatsklinikum Mannheim
J. Hartmann
Universitatsklinik Erlangen und Medizinische Fakultat
J. Nadobny
Charite - Universitatsmedizin Berlin
Johanna Gellermann
Praxis/Zentrum für Strahlentherapie und Radioonkologie
Universitatsklinikum Tubingen Medizinische Fakultat
Netteke van Holthe
Erasmus University Medical Center
Pirus Ghadjar
Charite - Universitatsmedizin Berlin
N. Lomax
Kantonsspital Aarau
S. Abdel-Rahman
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen
Christoph Bert
GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research GmbH
Universitatsklinik Erlangen und Medizinische Fakultat
A. Bakker
Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam
M. D. Hurwitz
Thomas Jefferson University
C. J. Diederich
University of California, San Francisco
P. R. Stauffer
Thomas Jefferson University
G. C. Van Rhoon
Erasmus University Medical Center
International Journal of Hyperthermia
0265-6736 (ISSN) 1464-5157 (eISSN)
Vol. 33 4 471-482Ämneskategorier (SSIF 2011)
Energiteknik
DOI
10.1080/02656736.2016.1277791