RADON 101 Principles of Dose Calculation • 4 Cr.

Description

Explores principles and methods for calculation of treatment times in administering radiation therapy treatments. Prerequisite: Acceptance into program.

Details

Prerequisite: Acceptance into the program.

Outcomes

After completing this class, students should be able to:

• Analyze the purpose of the radiation therapy prescription
• Compare and contrast a radiation therapy prescription to a general medical prescription
• Apply specific geometric figures to radiation therapy applications
• Apply specific trigonometry functions to radiation therapy applications
• Identify the factors included in basic monitor unit calculations
• Compare the information included in specific radiation therapy beam data tables
• Apply mathematical interpolation and extrapolation models to beam data tables
• Apply the beam data tables for basic monitor unit calculations
• Evaluate potential sources or errors in calculations for patient treatments
• Calculate a monitor unit setting within 2% accuracy of a computer calculation

Offered

• Winter 2020 (current quarter)