A How-To Compendium for GammaPod Treatments, Clinical Workflow, and Clinical Program at an Early Adopting Institution

Elizabeth Zhang-Velten; You Zhang; Sepeadeh Radpour; Xuejun Gu; D. Nathan Kim; Prasanna Alluri; Chika Nwachukwu; Tsuicheng Chiu; Weiguo Lu; David Parsons; Jun Tan; Jennifer Gillespie; Stella Stevenson; Hak Choy; Robert Timmerman; Asal Rahimi

doi:10.1016/j.prro.2022.01.006

A How-To Compendium for GammaPod Treatments, Clinical Workflow, and Clinical Program at an Early Adopting Institution

Elizabeth Zhang-Velten, You Zhang, Sepeadeh Radpour, Xuejun Gu, D. Nathan Kim, Prasanna Alluri, Chika Nwachukwu, Tsuicheng Chiu, Weiguo Lu, David Parsons, Jun Tan, Jennifer Gillespie, Stella Stevenson, Hak Choy, Robert Timmerman, Asal Rahimi

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In 2019, our institution became the second in the world to go live with GammaPod (Xcision Medical Systems, LLC, Columbia, MD), a device dedicated for stereotactic radiation therapy of breast cancer, with breast immobilization, real-time imaging, and highly-conformal dosimetry. At our institution, GammaPod is used for 5-fraction adjuvant partial breast irradiation, single-fraction tumor cavity boost before whole-breast irradiation, single-fraction preoperative radiation, and (in poor surgical candidates), single-fraction definitive radiation. Here, we describe our workflow, observed procedure step times, and homegrown techniques for improved efficiency in our institutional experience of 93 patients treated between 2019 and 2021.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	e177-e182
Journal	Practical Radiation Oncology
Volume	12
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prro.2022.01.006
State	Published - May 1 2022

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Oncology
Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging

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Zhang-Velten, E., Zhang, Y., Radpour, S., Gu, X., Kim, D. N., Alluri, P., Nwachukwu, C., Chiu, T., Lu, W., Parsons, D., Tan, J., Gillespie, J., Stevenson, S., Choy, H., Timmerman, R., & Rahimi, A. (2022). A How-To Compendium for GammaPod Treatments, Clinical Workflow, and Clinical Program at an Early Adopting Institution. Practical Radiation Oncology, 12(3), e177-e182. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prro.2022.01.006

Zhang-Velten, E, Zhang, Y, Radpour, S, Gu, X, Kim, DN, Alluri, P, Nwachukwu, C, Chiu, T , Lu, W , Parsons, D, Tan, J, Gillespie, J, Stevenson, S, Choy, H , Timmerman, R & Rahimi, A 2022, 'A How-To Compendium for GammaPod Treatments, Clinical Workflow, and Clinical Program at an Early Adopting Institution', Practical Radiation Oncology, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. e177-e182. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prro.2022.01.006

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