- A prerequisite for properly performed radiation therapy is to ensure reproducibility of the patient's positioning during the entire process of preparation and execution of irradiation. This is necessary in order to reach the therapeutic area (tumor) with the radiation dose precisely and, at the same time, limit the dose in the organs adjacent to it. Therefore, before each irradiation session, imaging is performed using a system integrated with the gas pedal to verify that the patient's position on the treatment table agrees with that during treatment planning. If the images differ, the patient's position is corrected, and only then does the treatment (irradiation) begin," explains Dr. Pawel Wolowiec, a doctor in the field of science in the discipline of physical sciences, a specialist in medical physics, an expert in medical physics in the field of radiation therapy, who heads the Medical Physics Department at the ŚCO.
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