Organization of teletherapy treatment planning training process for medical physicists and engineers of radiotherapy departments at N.N. Alexandrov national cancer centre of Belarus

Training was provided for all employees of the Radiotherapy engineering and medical physics department of the N.N. Alexandrov NCCB in accordance with their job duties. The developed instruction describes the following procedures for the operation of equipment for radiation therapy: CT and PET images registration procedure, analysis of the treatment planning statistics, import of the patient data to the Eclipse TPS, patient data transfer from CT to the dedicated data server, CT and MRI images registration procedure, 3D treatment planning using MasterPlan TPS, 3D treatment planning using Eclipse TPS, IMRT and VMAT verification using EPID, IMRT and VMAT verification using Octavius 4D, EPID calibrations, IMRT treatment planning using Eclipse TPS, VMAT treatment planning using Eclipse TPS. Conclusions. Introduction of the developed instruction in the clinical practice of N.N. Alexandrov NCCB made it possible to streamline the process of training the staff of the Radiotherapy engineering and medical physics department and to competently approach the evaluation of the knowledge acquired by the personnel that is operating of the radiotherapy equipment