- June 3, 2025
- Category: What's New
May 28, 2025 – Physics World Article
The physics team at Almater Hospital is using Elekta ONE | QA, powered by ThinkQA Secondary Dose Check software to ensure each Elekta Unity adaptive plan is safe and accurate before it is delivered.
At Hospital Almater, all external-beam radiation treatments are performed using an Elekta Unity MR-Linac (with brachytherapy employed for gynaecological cancers). This enables the hospital to offer adaptive radiotherapy for all cases, including head-and-neck, breast, prostate, rectal and lung cancers.
To ensure efficient workflow and high-quality treatments, the team turned to the ThinkQA SDC software, because of its user-friendly interface, ease of integration into the clinical workflow and common integrated QA platform for both CT and MR-Linac systems. The software also offers the ability to perform 3D evaluation of the entire planning treatment volume (PTV) and the organs-at-risk, making the gamma evaluation more robust.
The software integrates smoothly into the Elekta ONE adaptive workflow, providing reliable results without slowing down the clinical workflow. “In our institution, we set up ThinkQA SDC so that it automatically receives the new plan, runs the check, compares it with the original plan and creates a report – all in around two minutes,” says Cabrera Santiago. “This saves us a lot of time and removes the need to do everything manually.”
In this PhysicsWorld article, read how the software provides quality assurance for every fraction without impacting the clinical workflow.