Quality assurance guidelines for superficial hyperthermia clinical trials: I. Clinical requirements
Journal article, 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.
clinical
Quality assurance
superficial
hyperthermia
Author
Hana Dobsicek Trefna
Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Signal Processing and Biomedical Engineering
Hans Crezee
University of Amsterdam
M. Schmidt
Universitatsklinik Erlangen und Medizinische Fakultat
D. Marder
Kantonsspital Aarau
U. Lamprecht
University of Tübingen
M. Ehmann
Mannheim university hospital
J. Hartmann
Universitatsklinik Erlangen und Medizinische Fakultat
J. Nadobny
Charité University Medicine Berlin
Johanna Gellermann
University of Tübingen
Praxis/Zentrum für Strahlentherapie und Radioonkologie
Netteke van Holthe
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Pirus Ghadjar
Charité University Medicine Berlin
N. Lomax
Kantonsspital Aarau
S. Abdel-Rahman
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU)
Christoph Bert
Helmholtz
Universitatsklinik Erlangen und Medizinische Fakultat
A. Bakker
University of Amsterdam
M. D. Hurwitz
Thomas Concrete Group
C. J. Diederich
University of California
P. R. Stauffer
Thomas Concrete Group
G. C. Van Rhoon
Erasmus University Rotterdam
International Journal of Hyperthermia
0265-6736 (ISSN) 1464-5157 (eISSN)
Vol. 33 4 471-482Subject Categories
Energy Engineering
DOI
10.1080/02656736.2016.1277791