The Ottawa Hospital Radiation Medicine Program is seeking proposals for a secondary dose calculation system. The Radiation Medicine Program treats approximately 4500 patients annually on Elekta linear accelerators, Accuray Tomotherapy HD systems, and a Cyberknife. The Elekta units all have Agility MLCs and beam matched with the following beam models: 6 MV, 10 MV, 6 MV FFF, 10 MV FFF, as well as 6, 9, 12, 15, and 17 MeV electron beams (total of 9 beam models). The Tomotherapy systems are also beam matched (a single beam model is required). External beam treatment planning is currently done on Elekta Monaco. Tomotherapy planning is done using Accuray’s Tomotherapy planning system, and Cyberknife planning is done on MultiPlan. Implementations of Accuray Precision and Raysearch Raystation version 8 are anticipated in the next year.
Notes:
- 1 CyberKnife and 1 HDR Brachytherapy Flexitron.
- Elekta Agility accelerators are all matched and we have a single beam model for all of them.
- Tomotherapy accelerators are all matched and we have a single beam model for all of them
- This is for secondary dose calculation only. Secondary dose calculation is a verification of the treatment planning dose distribution using an independent dose calculation algorithm and the exported treatment plan dicom files.
- We do not want/need licenses for each individual accelerator since the same beam model and machine name is used for each Elekta Agility accelerators and for each Tomotherapy accelerators. We also do not need software for log file analysis, portal images, etc.
